When researchers asked AI models to explain how they solved puzzles, the models made stuff up. That's a big trust issue. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Explore the year’s most surprising computational revelations, including a new fundamental relationship between time and space ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they ...

Lee Child's Reacher books have always had one major problem, but the Prime Video show is gradually fixing it in one significant way. For a long time, the Reacher brand was only recognizable because of ...

Original music by Dan Powell Marion Lozano Elisheba Ittoop and Diane Wong The holiday season is here, which means it’s the time to think of great gifts for everyone on your list. While it can feel ...

On occasion, what a book club needs most is for one person to tell another person to shut up. That’s when a book club facilitator could help. “When a club wants a facilitator, it’s usually because of ...