Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

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As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

New Yorkers got a little more visibility this week into when apps like Uber and DoorDash use algorithms to set prices. The state's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday. Under the ...

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The US and China are closing in on a deal to avoid a US ban of TikTok – and it will include China allowing US techies to replicate and replace the wildly popular app’s secret-sauce recommendation ...

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman keeps heralding GPT-5, the company’s latest large language model (LLM), as approaching to human-level intelligence — but when you actually put it to the test, it often turns out ...

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