A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

The Rotary club is set to award East Palo Alto teacher Harriette Huang, who left behind a tech career to become an educator, ...

There is a version of this that happens slowly. Social inflation pushes up severity. Filing rates tick upward quarter over ...

If you have ever dined out, you know the drill. After your delicious drink or meal, you’re likely going to get two receipts ...

The idea is that tearing down walls and having everyone work side by side will increase conversation between workers and ...

The instinct to add AI everywhere, to make every feature "smarter," can lead to products that feel innovative but are hardly ...

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

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.

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

This year, for the first time in the 11 years that Lean In and McKinsey have tracked women in corporate America, they reported an “ambition gap.” Eighty percent of women said they wanted to be ...

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it turned to mathematical proofs to make sure the code works correctly before ...

The solution came following a very simple chatbot inquiry. OpenAI mathematicians fed the conjecture into a large language model (LLM) and asked it if Erdős was wrong. The researchers were not involved ...