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Good news, computer science majors. One of the biggest names in AI thinks your degree is still valuable. Bret Taylor serves as chairman of OpenAI, the AI giant that recently rolled out its own AI ...

Computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life. In recent years, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly. A new National Academies ...

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Anthropic, a smaller rival started by OpenAI defectors, has found runaway success with its programming agent, Claude Code.

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

Computer scientists and weather scientists have taken the first steps toward creating an AI agent capable of analyzing and answering questions in natural language, such as English, about data from ...