Long AI projects can suffer from context pollution as generated material accumulates alongside authoritative instructions, making fresh sessions and an external source of truth essential for ...

Patients with rare diseases often spend five years or more searching for a diagnosis. Now artificial intelligence is helping some get answers faster. Rachel Hinken long wondered why her son, Oliver, ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

A new treatment designed to improve emotional regulation in people with alcohol use disorder may help them drink less often. In a study of people receiving cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

If you ask anyone what the best word processor is, the answer will most likely be Microsoft Word. You can create and edit documents, do some advanced formatting, create forms and complex diagrams, ...

It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible. If you’ve spent about 10 minutes on the internet in the ...

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The Microsoft Office suite of productivity programs has long been the industry standard for professional work. Plenty of alternatives have come and gone over the years, but today, despite there being ...

Microsoft’s Legal Agent comes from the work of former Robin AI engineers. Microsoft’s Legal Agent comes from the work of former Robin AI engineers. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who ...