Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Prolog is a programming language that is rooted in formal logic. It supports backtracking and unification as built-in features. Prolog allows us to elegantly solve many tasks with short and general ...

So, you’re wondering what the deal is with programming languages for artificial intelligence, especially as we head into 2025? It’s a pretty big topic, and honestly, the landscape keeps changing.

Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...

What if you could turn your ideas into working code simply by describing them in plain language? Imagine skipping the tedious syntax, the endless debugging, and the steep learning curve of traditional ...