In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Anthropic's latest flagship AI model Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with sharper reasoning, tighter alignment, and a price tag that hasn't budged.

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The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

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This piece is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the quest to develop these machines here and their most promising applications here. Around the world researchers are ...

Earnings call Ladder Capital delivered strong Q1 2026 results with distributable earnings of $28M ($0.22/share), robust loan origination, and a 25% YoY asset base increase. Management expects ...

Learning Python can feel like a big task, especially when you’re just starting out. But honestly, the best way to get a handle on it is to just start writing code. We’ve put together some practical ...

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 ...