Why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup final at the start of this week, a different ...

Mathematicians grapple with a 'very rapid and very unsettling change' as AI cracks yet another century-old problem

Anthropic's Levant Alpöge, a former Harvard valedictorian, used Claude's Fable 5 to find something that mathematicians have ...

WiMi Releases Resource-Efficient Quantum Convolutional Neural Network Based on QRAM, Accelerating the Practical Implementation of Large-Scale Image Classification Applications

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, announced the release of its latest independently developed ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
Wall Street Journal

A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It.

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...
Time

8 Signs You’re the Problem in Your Arguments

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GitHub

Runge--Kutta generalized Convolution Quadrature for sectorial problems

We study the application of the generalized convolution quadrature (gCQ) based on Runge--Kutta methods to approximate the solution of an important class of sectorial problems. The gCQ generalizes ...
Scientific American

Is AI on the precipice of revolutionizing math? It depends

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 ...
International Rescue Committee

5 urgent problems the world faces in 2026

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Microsoft’s Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems

Microsoft’s MSFT0.54%increase; up pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the effort ...
MarketWatch

College sports has a new money problem — and St. John’s may be the latest example: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...