David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

Anthropic researchers say Claude Opus 4.6 showed unusual behaviour during a BrowseComp evaluation. The model suspected it was ...

The Final Puzzle, a Resident Evil Requiem challenge that had vexed players for days, has been solved - apparently by accident.

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Microsoft’s MSFT1.02%increase; green up pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

As the College Football Playoff gets ready to debut on Friday, Dec. 19, there's plenty of talk about the state of college football. Between the NIL (name, image, likeness) and the NCAA Transfer Portal ...

Modern electronics don't always work the way they should. While smashing your glitchy device with a hammer would make you feel better, there are solutions you can try first. This is especially true ...

When was the last time it felt like New York City was headed in the right direction? As federal funding for housing, schools, and food security gets cut, New York’s leaders are facing crises of their ...

Indictments of our dehumanizing prison system don’t get much more conscience-piercing than what’s revealed in “The Alabama Solution,” a shattering documentary from Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman ...