Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at NYU, explains the differences between large language models and "world models" — and why he thinks the latter are key to achieving artificial general intelligence.

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We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

The Kennedy Center has laid off its entire dance programming team, a move that has sparked fresh concerns among staff and artists about the future of the genre at the nation’s performing arts hub.

Attackers are targeting operational technology (OT) networks via a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in a popular set of Erlang libraries used for critical infrastructure and OT development.

A max-severity RCE vulnerability in Erlang’s OTP SSH daemon, CVE-2025-32433, was actively exploited in OT networks across six countries, targeting firewalls in critical infrastructure sectors. A ...

“I’m not so interested in LLMs anymore,” declared Dr. Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and then proceeded to upend everything we think we know about AI. No one can escape the hype around large ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in Hell.

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...