Computer science was the safe bet. For twenty years, enrolment in the US only went up. In the 2025-26 academic year, it went down. The reversal The finding comes from Jacob Light, an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Business Insider reported his research. His dataset is vast: more than 50 million course sections since 1996, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to ente [...]
Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the most ambitious product in its three-year history: a multi-model agent orchestration platform ca [...]
Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typin [...]
The Dfinity Foundation on Wednesday released Caffeine, an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to build and deploy web applications through natural language conversation alone, bypassing [...]
A stealth artificial intelligence startup founded by an MIT researcher emerged this morning with an ambitious claim: its new AI model can control computers better than systems built by OpenAI and Anth [...]
Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions [...]
Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and minifigures. It was unexpected and delightful to see Lego come [...]
ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms [...]
Teenage Engineering, the hip Swedish tech/design brand that makes synths of all kinds (and a portable game machine with a crank) has built another computer chassis. And it’s free! But you also can†[...]