When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing story about numbers.

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Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

The rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing a fundamental rethink of cloud security strategies, moving the focus from perimeter defence to behavioural analysis and automated reasoning.

Ribbit Capital Leads Round at $1.45B Valuation of Math-Based AI Venture; Emerson Collective Joins Existing Backers Including Sequoia & Kleiner Perkins Harmonic, the artificial intelligence lab leading ...

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation by Patty Wellborn, University of British Columbia edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

Knot theory, once a fringe branch of pure math, now drives breakthroughs in physics, DNA research, and quantum computing. Trump caught on hot mic saying he thinks Putin ‘wants to make a deal for me – ...