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 ...

Recursive Superintelligence, a startup founded by former leaders from Meta AI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI, has emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding at a $4.65 billion ...

Staff at Salt Lake City-based techbio company Recursion recently heard from Jenny and Tim Jones about their challenging family history of familial adenomatous polyposis. Most of the Recursion staff ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively ...

When I last covered the self-styled TechBio company Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RXRX) in early October, I was attempting to find reasons why the company's share price was on the rise, up from ~$4 ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Elaine’s stories explore the boom in new obesity treatments, new drug payment models, the ways companies are affected by FDA changes, and the emerging psychedelics drug sector. She co-writes The ...

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These are direct-prediction models trained from scratch on small, heavily augmented datasets—not few-shot prompting. ARC remains the canonical target; broader leaderboard context and rules (e.g., ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...