AI may have cracked a 370-year-old cipher in 44 minutes. The harder question is whether it discovered the answer, remembered it, or merely guessed well.
Tokenization converts raw text or other inputs into discrete units that a model can map to identifiers and process ...
Yesterday, I introduced a model for reading the American midterm elections as a chain of consequences: new evidence changes a ...
Their numbers are growing. Tools like Project Read and LitLab create decodable texts, designed to be aligned to the curriculum program of the teacher’s choice. AI for multi-purpose classroom use, like ...
A phishing campaign that has been targeting hotels across Europe and Asia since April 2026 is exploiting a fundamental flaw in how enterprise email security works — routing malicious messages through ...
Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that probably sounded ...
Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking ...
You spent hours crafting the perfect prompt. The reasoning is sound, the context is rich, and the model is the latest release. You ask for a simple JSON summary. The response streams in, looking ...
The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...
For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...