A developer who builds RoamSwitch, a network security app for Mac and Linux, traces today's AI-agent-driven cyberattack concerns back to the same structural trust failures seen in 1992-era VAX/VMS and…
Nokia plans to cut Bell Labs research headcount from 681 to 408 by the end of next year, a reduction of about 46% since 2024, and shrink its dedicated research centers from 19 to six, according to int…
Anthropic's Labs team, a rotating group of about 20 employees led by cofounder Ben Mann, has driven the AI company's growth by quickly killing bad ideas and developing hits like Claude Code, which bec…
The concept of next-token prediction in modern AI traces back to a 1913 experiment by Russian mathematician Andrei Markov, who analyzed 20,000 letters from Alexander Pushkin's 'Eugene Onegin' to demon…
Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra announced Micron Research Labs, a $10 billion investment in basic research for next-generation AI memory, during a CNBC appearance in Boise, claiming memory is no…
A contrarian opinion piece argues that unlike previous tech revolutions which increased workload and benefited companies more than employees, AI could improve work for both. The author cites a McKinse…
Invenio Imaging, a San Jose medical-device maker, has completed enrollment in its ON-SITE study of 1,006 patients across seven U.S. medical centers to evaluate its AI-based NIO Lung Cancer Reveal syst…
Frontier AI companies DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic have outgrown the 'lab' label and should be called companies, argues Robin Sloan in a blog post. Sloan notes that while the term evokes Bell Labs …
A developer argues that while AI can rapidly generate the first 90% of a software project, the remaining 90%—handling real-world edge cases, scalability, and security—still requires human expertise. T…
Nokia CEO Justin Hotard said at MWC 2026 that AI generates 77 exabytes per month, accounts for 20% of total network traffic, drives 1.3 trillion sessions annually, and processes over 100 trillion toke…
The 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is widely considered the founding event of ar…
Anthropic's Claude AI is named after Claude Shannon, and the company's CEO expresses a desire to recreate the collaborative environment of Bell Labs' cafeteria, where diverse researchers sparked ideas…
Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford's Hoover Institution proposes abolishing the National Institutes of Health, arguing that private sector funding and venture capital can replace it. Critics, including Dr. D…
A developer draws a parallel between the development of quantum mechanics and the current state of AI, arguing that uncertainty is not an obstacle but the terrain for progress. The post notes that the…
AI coding tools rapidly generate 80% of a project's code, but the remaining 20%—edge cases, failure modes, and operational realities—is where engineers historically built critical judgment. This missi…
Robert Smith, billionaire CEO of Vista Equity Partners, urged businesses adopting AI to preserve their intern programs, emphasizing the importance of bringing young people into the workforce to transf…
Research, research and development (R&D), and product engineering are fundamentally different jobs with distinct goals, success criteria, and personnel, not simply the same work performed at different…
The first LCF-style proof assistant, Edinburgh LCF, was introduced in 1975, establishing the foundational principles of a proof kernel, natural deduction, and goal-directed proof that underpin modern …
The article explains that measuring loudness is complex because it involves both physical sound pressure and human perception. It traces the history from the decibel (dB), developed by Bell Labs in th…