Yet an AI detector that is mostly reliable might in some ways be more dangerous than a broken one. While Pangram is accumulating the power to end reputations and careers, the tool does make mistakes, ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) was not a formal or informal part of my graduate school training, yet AI is increasingly ...

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 open Erdős problems and proved 44 OEIS conjectures using AI-driven formal ...

Every sanctions team I speak to quotes a false-positive rate above 95 per cent as if it were weather. That number is not a property of the matching engine. It is a property of the data fed into it and ...

While Meta is conducting another brutal round of layoffs, cutting highly experienced, specialised AI talent to “flatten" its org chart, Elon Musk is working on another trajectory. He recently tweeted ...

If you've been using AI tools for chemistry lab reports or physics problem sets in 2026, you're likely already experiencing a major shift: these tools are no longer just chatbots you copy-paste from.

Abstract: With the transformation of manufacturing towards intelligence and flexibility, the workshop scheduling problem, as a typical combinatorial optimization problem, is facing increasingly ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

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