The first piece of ransomware was sent it out on 20,0000 floppy discs in 1989, to raise awareness of health- rather than ...

OpenAI rolled out their updated Codex app for Mac yesterday and, among other things, they shipped a native computer use tool ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Claude Opus 4.7 improves on performance and usability, but is intentionally dialed down in capability as Anthropic ...

A computer language created to spot errors in mathematical theorems has uncovered a fundamental error in a widely cited physics paper for the first time. The ...

AI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system runs on your Mac or PC, turning your machine into a personal AI agent ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Perplexity launched ‘Personal Computer,’ an AI agent that runs on M4 Mac mini servers and integrates local applications with enhanced security features. According to Macworld, this follows the trend ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...