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A year ago, a report from the University of California San Diego made major waves when it showed that a rising share of its incoming freshmen had math skills that were below the high school level.

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A single provision buried in a sweeping veterans bill would cut $57 billion in disability compensation from 1.5 million ...

AI just solved one of the world’s hardest math problems.

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Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous ...

AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.

A New York University professor questions whether AI agents that solved one of the most complex problems in theoretical ...

OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem. But could its A.I. models have used data from two mathematicians ...