On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google’s Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term “scientist in the loop,” ...

AI agents built to run everyday computer tasks have a serious context problem, according to new research from UC Riverside. These systems can open apps, click buttons, fill out forms, move through ...

A cutting-edge large language model (LLM) outperformed human doctors in common clinical reasoning tasks including emergency room decisions, identifying likely diagnoses, and choosing next steps in ...

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Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

Most of the crypto industry spent this week processing Google's paper on how quantum computers could break blockchain encryption. One startup is asking a different question — whether quantum hardware ...

Leah Solivan built Taskrabbit from a recession-era idea into one of the companies that helped define the gig economy. Then she sold it to Ikea in what she describes as a tearful, unanimous board vote.

With help from AI, I finally tackled some computer chores that I’ve been putting off for months. My Downloads folder is cleaner than it’s been in ages. The photos that OneDrive blandly sorted by month ...

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...

Anthropic PBC wants users to give Claude the keys to their computer, announcing new “computer use” functionality for its artificial intelligence assistant so it can now click, scroll and navigate ...