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How AI Is Reinventing the Way Creative Teams Work
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (516+ words) Creative teams have never had more tools at their disposal'and those tools can do more than ever before. Across marketing and design, new developments in AI have made it possible to create passable first-draft copy, imagery, and video at the…...
How Two Zoomers Created RentAHuman, the First Marketplace for Bots to Hire Humans
1+ week, 1+ day ago (636+ words) The provocatively-titled platform enables users to connect AI agents like Clawdbot or Claude to its Model Context Protocol server so they can search, book, and pay for humans to carry out tasks in "meatspace." Think of it like Fiverr, but…...
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (473+ words) Chen told Ono about the problem, and the following morning, Ono presented him with a proof, courtesy of his startup's math-solving AI, AxiomProver. "Everything fell into place naturally after that," says Chen, who worked with Axiom to write up the…...
Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going
4+ week, 2+ day ago (697+ words) The future never feels fully certain. But in this time of rapid, intense transformation'political, technological, cultural, scientific'it's as difficult as it ever has been to get a sense of what's around the next corner. Here at WIRED, we're obsessed with…...
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1461+ words) Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic's AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it's reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down with Boris Cherny, head of Claude…...
AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (543+ words) Even the smartest artificial intelligence models are essentially copycats. They learn either by consuming examples of human work or by trying to solve problems that have been set for them by human instructors. But perhaps AI can, in fact, learn…...
A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1794+ words) The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don't need to…...
Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (802+ words) The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We're so small in comparison to the Earth that from our point…...
AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, Itâs Still Evolving
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (815+ words) AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, has just turned five. Over the past few years, we've periodically reported on its successes; last year, it won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. To understand what the next five years…...
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (348+ words) The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Air Force tasked Dantzig with figuring out new ways to solve optimization problems such as these. In response, he invented the simplex method, an algorithm that drew on some…...