During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

Who knew you could make money milking snakes, tasting pet food, or being a professional cuddler? It turns out that nowadays, you really can be anything you want to be. Even a mermaid...The world as we ...

Who knew you could make money milking snakes, tasting pet food, or being a professional cuddler? It turns out that nowadays, ...

Kolkata-born mathematician Neena Gupta has achieved a remarkable feat by solving the 70-year-old Zariski Cancellation Problem. Her passion for numbers, evident since childhood, led her to excel in her ...

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Back in April, Anthropic unveiled its Claude Mythos AI model that it said was too powerful to publicly release. Instead, the company has shared access with software vendors, including Apple, in an ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The new Claude Opus 4.8 is a "modest but tangible improvement," but a Mythos model you can use may be just weeks away. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...