We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

Can complex pursuit-evasion strategies emerge from scratch, through nothing but competition? This project trains two agents, a tagger (red) and a runner (blue), on a 20×20 grid using alternating PPO ...

Abstract: Neural combinatorial optimization methods have addressed many routing problems effectively, but the capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) poses a significant challenge due to its ...

Maria Popova knows what makes a person. A few hundred pages into “Traversal,” her kaleidoscopic, astounding and often maddening exploration of the evanescence of life and love, she tells us: “What ...

American Express Co. is deepening its relationship with site reliability engineering startup Traversal Inc., making a strategic investment through Amex Ventures while deploying Traversal’s artificial ...

Traversal, the frontier lab building AI agents for enterprise-grade site reliability engineering (SRE), today announced a strategic investment from Amex Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of ...

A mentor once told me that, when writing a research statement for a professorship, I had to start with the most ambitious pitch I could imagine — and then go ten times bigger. It’s tricky enough to do ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

Microsoft’s MSFT1.30%increase; green up pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the ...