These days, it would be hard to find anyone who needs to be convinced that AI is changing the future of business—and society at large. For business leaders it’s become a question of how quickly you ...

Blooms of yellowish-brown seaweed along the Equator are breaking records and defiling beaches, while a centuries-old patch farther north is disappearing. By Eric Niiler A 5,500-mile blob of seaweed in ...

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Anthropic PBC is rolling out a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model that is designed to be better at automating coding and office tasks, part of an effort to compete with ...

Of course, Opus 4.5 does a lot more than coding. Anthropic says it is also the “best model in the world” for powering AI agents and for operating a computer, and that it’s meaningfully better than ...

In a new benchmark named Vibe Code Bench, OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 achieved the highest level of accuracy in completing a series of software engineering tasks, narrowly beating rival Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 ...

Sam Schwarzkopf received internal funding to pay research participants for their time. University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. In July, Square Enix unveiled the newest entry in its Octopath Traveler series of role ...

The Suffolk County Department of Public Works is expected to repaint the traffic lane striping on County Road 39 west of North Sea Road this week as it prepares to implement new traffic patterns that ...

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