Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

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.

When the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics went live on 2 June 2026, things moved quickly. The ...

Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan Vaes, upon receiving the prestigious Francqui Prize for young scientists from the hands of Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, took the opportunity to tell Her ...

Colleges need to invest in creating welcoming, AI-free learning spaces.

This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...

The more machines can do, the clearer it becomes what only human beings can provide. The following was excerpted and adapted from a commencement speech given at Bard College on May 23.

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

Alice Rhee, a remote tech employee based in Fairbanks, Alaska, and her husband, a long-term public school teacher, agreed on ...

The New York Times last week told the story of Sidharth Hariharan, a mathematics graduate student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie ...

Leaders have the dual task of reshaping the identities of their people to account for the new way of working while preserving their old skills for the moments when the machines fail.