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.

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She is a tech entrepreneur, author, and relentless advocate for gender equality in STEM and beyond. Over the past 20 years, she had immersed herself in the fast-paced world of technology and AI, ...

Imagine a robot that doesn’t just follow commands but actually plans its actions, adjusts its movements on the go, and learns from feedback—much like a human would. This may sound like a far-fetched ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic management tools trickle into Europe’s workplaces, labour professionals are urging the European Union to introduce a new directive to safeguard workers’ ...

AI-powered recommendation algorithms on social media are carving pop culture into tiny, personalized bubbles, fueling echo ...

The Virtual Brain Inference (VBI) toolkit enables efficient, accurate, and scalable Bayesian inference over whole-brain network models, improving parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and ...

Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln—Abraham’s father and stepmother—are buried at Shiloh Cemetery just south of town, offering a quiet reminder that even legendary presidents came from regular ...

With just days until the biggest social media platforms start kicking off users they deem to be under 16, kids are flocking ...

A key lesson was to measure what matters. From the outset, we defined clear success metrics—latency reduction, resource ...