Allbirds is trading in sneakers for servers, selling its footwear brand as it races to reinvent itself as an AI company. The eco-friendly shoe company announced Wednesday that it is transitioning into ...

SES AI is hoping for a new life after more than a decade in the battery manufacturing business. Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

Tesla may have topped fourth-quarter expectations , but Wall Street was far more focused on what comes next — a massive investment that analysts believe will be costly, risky and slow to pay off.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Jay Bhattacharya is director of the National Institutes of Health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to wind down its mRNA vaccine development activities marks a necessary ...

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...