In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

Researchers show AI can learn a rare programming language by correcting its own errors, improving its coding success from 39% to 96%.

This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk AI can reverse engineer machine code ...

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no ...

A method for making quantum computers less error-prone could let them run complex programs such as simulations of materials more efficiently, thus making them more useful ...

A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that the human mind treats artificial agents much like real people. Working with an active digital partner tends to lower our conscious ...

AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs - even in decades-old code ...

Over the past year, as generative AI tools have become common in college classrooms, much of the conversation has centered on academic integrity: how to detect AI use, how to redesign assignments and ...

AI might have ‘PhD-level’ intelligence. But substituting it for a PhD student sacrifices a special part of the academic ecosystem.

Anthropic PBC has acquired Vercept Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence tool that can automate multistep tasks.