Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce ...

As we enter the fifth funding cycle for Direct to Open (D2O)—our model for open access monographs—the MIT Press is thrilled to partner with Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press to bring even ...

A billion years ago single-celled organisms ruled the Earth. How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer Now multicellular creatures are everywhere, including animals ...

In his World View article, Ziv Ben-Zion raises concerns about emotionally responsive artificial intelligence (AI) technologies (see Nature 643, 9; 2025). He proposes safeguards: disclosing that an AI ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...

GitHub Copilot has nearly lapped the AI coding field in a new industry snapshot from Jellyfish. The Microsoft-backed assistant claimed the top spot among developers by a wide margin, outpacing rivals ...

It’s been nearly a year since Gavin Newsom vetoed California State Bill 1047, a sweeping effort to regulate AI led by Senator Scott Wiener that rallied a motley crew of Nobel laureates, Hollywood ...