In The Proof in the Code (Quanta, June), the journalist chronicles how the computer program Lean is fundamentally changing ...

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the startup Oratomic have published a theoretical framework showing ...

Anthropic has rolled out Claude’s computer control feature on Windows, enabling the AI to autonomously run apps, write code ...

A simple prompt sent Claude Code on a mission that uncovered major security vulnerabilities in popular text editors — and ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

When a friend messaged me two days ago about Clawdbot—a new open-source AI agent that has since been renamed OpenClaw—I expected yet another disappointing “assistant.” But it was already a viral ...

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...

Left: The share of AI-written Python functions (2019-2024) grows rapidly, but countries differ in their adoption rates. The U.S. leads the early adoption of generative AI, followed by European nations ...

Generative AI is reshaping software development—and fast. A new study published in Science shows that AI-assisted coding is spreading rapidly, though unevenly: in the U.S., the share of new code ...

Until just very recently, writing software was a purely human craft, a slow and grinding process of translating logic into a myriad forms of syntax. Any developer worth their salt needs to know Java, ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...