Computer science was once a 'golden ticket' — now it's seeing the biggest enrollment drop of any major in 6 years. What students are choosing instead

Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Johnson said AI has "substantially wiped out" coding as a reliable source of opportunity.

Researchers built a switch 1,000 times faster than today's AI chips, and it barely generates any heat

The research, which was published in Science earlier this week, builds on another study published in Nature in January 2025.