In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

You’re reading a book and come across a word you don’t know. You keep going, and a few lines later, it clicks. You realise what the word must mean. There’s a small, satisfying moment of clarity—an ...

👉Learn how to solve a system (of equations) by elimination. A system of equations is a set of equations which are collectively satisfied by one solution of the variables. The elimination method of ...

In the early-morning hours last Friday, a Molotov cocktail-style projectile hit a gate outside of the San Francisco mansion of Sam Altman, the founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI. Soon after, the suspected ...

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous and powerful tools. A new result marks an exciting advance toward that goal.

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

When Nvidia this week said it would take a $2 billion stake in chip design company Synopsys, it was just the latest in a string of massive investments announced by the chipmaker this year. It's a lot ...