“Four months?” said Derek Hamm of Obsessive Compulsive Divers in Marathon, Florida. “Man. That’s plenty of time for a lot of gross stuff to accumulate.” Barnacles, mussels, clams, algae and other warm ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

This marks one of the clearest examples so far of AI helping to solve a longstanding mathematical problem that had stumped the experts. Written for you by our author Paul Arnold, edited by Gaby Clark, ...

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 ...

In the last months, weeks, and days of his life, “I will not go to the emergency room” became my husband’s mantra. Andrej had esophageal cancer that had spread throughout his body (but not to his ever ...

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The promise of physical AI is that engineers will be able to program physical agents the same way they do digital ones. We’re not there yet. Robotics is still held back by a paucity of data from ...

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 ...

Swalwell’s that ends well. Or maybe not, for California Democrats. They lost a frontrunner, and they don’t have a replacement yet. Eric Swalwell quit the race for California governor on Sunday night, ...

Artificial intelligence can give sophisticated financial advice and may be able to replace human financial advisors in the future, financial and legal experts said. However, unlike many human advisors ...

Microplastics found in human tissue, food and the environment are everywhere — even contaminating the very labs studying them, raising questions about research accuracy. Scientists are tightening ...

Quantum computers are already here, but they make far too many errors. This is arguably the biggest obstacle to the technology really becoming useful, but recent breakthroughs suggest a solution may ...