New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix ...

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.

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it on another quantum computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. In late 2022, when ChatGPT was released, I wasn’t very worried about the ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

MADRID, Spain—Adding digitoxin, a cardiac glycoside, to contemporary guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) improves clinical outcomes in patients who have heart failure with reduced ejection ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) -A single-digit jersey number is a great honor at Nebraska. The ten jerseys are awarded by a team vote, a tradition started by Matt Rhule. The Huskers revealed Monday evening that ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.