The transcript explores Goldbach’s conjecture, the simple-looking claim that every even number greater than 2 can be written ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

For nearly eighty years, Florida has been the answer to the question “where should I retire?” Beaches, no income tax, and a ...

The average Social Security retirement check reached $2,081 per month as of April 2026, according to the Social Security ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward the Big Bang, and the equations run into a singularity, a point where ...

How I used the chatbots Gemini and Claude as an AI personal trainer to take the guesswork out of diet and exercise.

New Jersey's schools face ballooning health care benefit costs. Can they survive a crisis? We will soon find out.

After your delicious drink or meal, you’re likely going to get two receipts of your bill from your server: a merchant and a ...

As bad as things are, they’re going to get a lot worse in 2030, thanks in part to the Supreme Court’s Callais decision.

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few th ...