The travelling salesman problem (TSP) remains one of the most challenging NP‐hard problems in combinatorial optimisation, with significant implications for logistics, network design and route planning ...

One of the first sentences I was ever paid to write was “Try out lighter lip stick colors, like peach or coral.” Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I’d scored a copy job for a how-to website. An ...

A mathematician opens up ChatGPT to check a calculation she could have easily solved in her head. An executive uses AI to draft an email he's written a hundred times before. A professor asks ...

You've just been assigned to write a 1,000-word essay for English class. In your programming class, you have a coding project that's due at the end of the week. At work, you're told to create a ...

Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – ...

Human beings may have sung before they spoke. Scientists from Charles Darwin onward have speculated that, for our early ancestors, music predated—and possibly formed the basis of—language. The ...

Alibaba Group is rolling out a major update of its Qwen app, integrating the chatbot into its ecosystem and allowing it to carry out tasks on users’ behalf. Gov. Gavin Newsom said “vile” images of ...