is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive ...

DeepMind has created an AI capable of writing code to solve arbitrary problems posed to it, as proven by participating in a coding challenge and placing — well, somewhere in the middle. It won’t be ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Any resistance the young people in your life may have to learning basic computer science will effectively melt on Monday, when Microsoft and the non-profit group Code.org release a ...