Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme right now,” Subbarao Kambhampati, a ...

In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything ...

The company is doubling down on AI for science. At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence firm, on Tuesday announced the availability of Claude Science, an application that optimizes the company’s large language model for use in ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

This piece is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the quest to develop these machines here and their most promising applications here. Around the world researchers are ...

On a Thursday afternoon in mid-April, nearly 400 physicists and physics students pack into a lecture hall in the Harvard Science Center to learn about their replacement. Harvard Professor of Physics ...

Derek Do, a third year computer science major, outside the Gates-Dell Complex at the University of Texas at Austin on April 15, 2026. Anxiety is in the air at computer science programs on university ...

For years, computer science was treated like a golden ticket — a degree that could all but guarantee a stable, high-paying job after graduation. But as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the tech ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...