The New YorkerOpinion

Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It

In its current incarnation, A.I. may not be poised to eliminate swaths of human jobs—but it certainly has the power to ...
Center for Strategic and International Studies

What Is Maven Smart System, and What Does It Do?

Matt Mande and Gregory C. Allen provide a detailed overview Maven Smart System, the AI-powered software platform that has ...
Nature

‘I wrote my first piece of code at seven’: women share highs and lows in computer science for Ada Lovelace Day

Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their experiences in the field ...
Scientific American

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
TechCrunch

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More ...
The New Yorker

The Birth of the Personal Computer

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...