In revisiting past hard problems, it is also important to recount successes that helped us bolster our defense. Successes ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

A superconducting quantum computer is part of a network that is mining an experimental cryptocurrency called Quip, and it is able to do it faster and with better energy efficiency than conventional ma ...

Irish-founded computing company Horizon Quantum has chosen Dublin as the site for establishing its planned second quantum computer.

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

Overview: An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions that takes an input and produces a clear output, just like a ...

Thirty seconds later, Gemini diagnosed the problem and recommended a simple fix, which didn’t require a call to my phone ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

Professors at the University of California, Berkeley say rising AI use is coinciding with more failing grades in computer ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

After spending years watching Sudoku players race through number grids, Yoshinao Anpuku now hopes more of them will begin looking beyond Sudoku ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...