A few years ago, Ken Schumacher was working for a technology company. Part of his job involved assessing potential hires: hopping on a Zoom call, giving an applicant an engineering test (kind of like ...

Figure AI says three of its humanoid robots crossed more than 24 hours of continuous autonomous operation after a test that was supposed to last only eight hours kept running. The California-based ...

The 2026 NFL Draft is just around the corner and we’re finally set to get some answers as to where the top wide receiver prospects will land. All throughout the process, this has been regarded as a ...

I introduced the 'basic' sorting methods this time, but when you have tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of data points, you need faster methods. Thinking about 'which method is best for this ...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain ...

Jenny Anderson, a journalist, is author of the Substack “How to Be Brave.” Rebecca Winthrop is director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and author of the newsletter ...

The other day, my niece asked if she could see something I have in my basement. A simple question, yet I found myself stuttering through flimsy excuses to avoid revealing what’s happening in the ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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 ...