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Alibaba Group’s 99882.61%increase; up pointing triangle new artificial-intelligence video-generation tool is leading a global ranking that tracks AI models’ abilities, signaling Chinese companies’ ...

I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing up and have been able to use those experiences to help students improve in math through practical applications and tips.

When a startup struggles, founders usually assume the solution is obvious: more marketing, more hiring, or more capital. But in my experience advising founders, the real issue is usually something ...

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 ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

At a secret meeting in 2025, some of the world's leading mathematicians gathered to test OpenAI's newest large language model, o4-mini. Experts at the meeting were amazed by how much the model's ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT show reasoning errors across many domains. Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, ...