When AI goes haywire: the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone

A relatively simple experiment involving asking a generative AI to compare two objects of very different sizes allows us to ...
Communications of the ACM

Formal Reasoning Meets LLMs: Toward AI for Mathematics and Verification

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The mathematical reasoning performed by LLMs is fundamentally different from the rule-based symbolic methods in traditional formal reasoning.
InfoQ

Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By ...

Meet ‘The Baroness’—the world’s longest wild snake

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around

The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around ...

Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry

The rivaling AI companies pushed GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6, and had back-to-back appearances on a tech and business ...

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free ...
C&EN

Lesson 3.4: Density: Sink and Float for Solids

Wax is made of carbon and hydrogen atoms bonded together in long chains. The chains are tangled, intertwined, and packed together to make the wax. Water molecules are packed more closely together than ...