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In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Step-by-step builds beat full-spec instructions for AI coding. AIs can destroy code as quickly as they create it. Use AGENTS.md, screenshots, and refactoring to keep projects stable. Last week, I put ...

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5, the latest iteration of its flagship language model, to all ChatGPT users. The company’s CEO Sam Altman called GPT-5 “a significant step along the path to AGI” ...

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues? Well maybe there is as the return of meme-stocks mania has been beefed up by yet another company — American Eagle Outfitters. Shares of the casual-wear ...

Amid this week's speculative euphoria, we asked ChatGPT what makes a meme stock. The chatbot laid out four things for investors to focus on. The AI also had some ideas about what stocks might be next ...

Researchers show how ChatGPT can generate code to control lab equipment, allowing scientists to automate experiments without writing software manually. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Scientific instrumentation ...

It was love at first byte. A man proposed to his AI girlfriend after a bizarre whirlwind romance with the virtual bot — leaving his real-life partner, the mother of his 2-year-old child, worried about ...

ChatGPT's Codex, which is an AI agent that lets you code and delegate programming tasks, is now testing a new feature that lets you choose the best solution. OpenAI launched Codex in April, and it's a ...