Swarms of AI agents could supercharge scientific progress or wreak havoc. New research from Google DeepMind suggests that peer pressure could keep them in line. A group of AI agents asked to solve a ...

Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the past week. “The science is thrilling,” the Cornell ...

Why should we care that AI is suddenly insanely good at math? It’s a question that I’ve been asking mathematicians and AI researchers for months, and especially this week, when OpenAI published a ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Math is hard. And, apparently, expensive. On Tuesday, OpenAI said its agents had solved the Navier-Stokes equations, a ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

In a year of unthinkable math progress, as increasingly powerful AI systems have cracked conjectures that had long stumped humans, OpenAI published a breakthrough on Tuesday that represents the most ...

Rank Math has decided to temporarily pause their Support Agent because it did not clearly communicate that the agent would generate credentials that gave it access to their user’s WordPress website.

As New Mexico takes steps to do for math education what it has done for reading, Santa Fe Public Schools is taking a leap. The district is an early adopter of the state’s push to remake math ...

'The interest payments are starting to snowball,' says Joe Boyle, fixed-income investment specialist at Hartford Funds With the national debt at $40 trillion, Treasury yields matter. Tumbling oil ...

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today on Decoder, ...

As high-school math students gear up to buy the newest version of Texas Instruments’ TI-84 graphic calculator, cheaper upstarts are trying to break the company’s decades-old grip on the market. Texas ...