Latest AI mystery is that there are 11 specific nouns used frequently by LLMs when creating short stories. Why those words?

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

If you have been trying to beat Wordle every day and failing more often than you would like to admit, science might finally ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Comic legend Richard Pryor used the n-word so much during his standup routines that he once said, “I said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.” Yet one of the most notorious examples ...

The 14-year-old from California spelled a record 32 words correctly in 90 seconds to prevail in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, clinching the victory with the winning word “bromocriptine.” Maria ...

London AI agent platform CodeWords raised €7.6 mn in Seed funding to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams. The round came from Visionaries, which led the investment, with Firstminute Capital, ...

The weekly color supplements that come with our black and white newspaper are perhaps more revealing than they intend to be about the distribution of wealth. One such supplement recently included, ...

In many professional environments, writing and editing are often considered among the more time-intensive and repetitive parts of daily work. From legal documents to internal reports, the process ...

Bottom line: Google said on Wednesday that about 75% of its new code is now generated by AI and then reviewed by engineers, a figure that marks a sharp increase from recent levels. In October 2024, ...

The system represents an improvement in autonomous or agentic capability. GPT-5.5 “represents a step toward AI systems that can complete complex, multistep tasks on a computer without human guidance,” ...