The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to beyond 3000, and makes ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

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“Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...

As someone who has alarmed multiple subway cars by swearing loudly at my telephone on one of the rare occasions I’ve been able to beat it on easy mode, trust me when I say I am very familiar with the ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

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The new contract covers the Post-Critical Design Review phase of the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, which will replace the TF33 engines with the new F130s. The U.S. Department of War ...

Duolingo has been through a lot of changes over the past few years. What was once solely a language-learning app has grown into a social media marketing machine, a destination for math and music ...

The mother of Daniel Naroditsky, the former grandmaster chess player who died earlier this week, has broken her silence on her son’s death and said that he had been tormented by online accusations ...

In a nutshell: Several of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models will soon face off in a public chess tournament. The three-day event will feature leading AIs from OpenAI, Google, ...

The world’s top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI’s o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and xAI Corp.’s Grok 4 are ...