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Claude Cowork Is the ‘Intern’ We’ve Been Waiting For

Claude Cowork turns AI into a desktop agent that manages files, runs browser research, builds reusable Skills, and automates real workflows.

OpenAI's new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex - but there's a catch

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.
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Hands-On Learning: Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing through Unplugged Activities in Undergraduate CS Courses

Abstract: The authors present and evaluate an unplugged activity to introduce parallel computing concepts to undergraduate students. Students in five CS classrooms used a deck of playing cards in ...
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New Research: AI Doesn’t Save You Time. It Just Makes You Do More

AI feels like a productivity boost, but new research shows it often increases workload. Learn how compound engineering turns AI from a trap into leverage.

A Radical New Computer Could Replace Electricity With Light—and Make Processing Unstoppable

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...

AI race sends Big Tech’s capital spending to stratospheric high

The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this ...