Heuristics simplify decision-making by using mental shortcuts. Understand their pros, cons, and examples in finance and ...

A long-standing mathematical conundrum has been solved by ChatGPT in a few hours, with only a few simple prompts. The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is a 30-year-old question in graph theory, but a ...

An Anthropic AI model, Claude Fable 5, helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, a famous open problem in mathematics dating to 1939. The model produced a concrete counterexample that ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Nadella's sharper point is about what he calls "exhaust." Not just your data—your prompts, the tools your agents call, and above all the corrections your people make when the model gets something ...

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“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. The new technology hinges on a “quasi-random ...

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...

Reaffirming the company’s long-established strategy, Disney CFO Hugh Johnston told Wall Street analysts Wednesday on an earnings call there are no plans to spin off or sell linear TV networks. The ...

Tesla enjoyed the pricing power that comes with being the only major name in the electric vehicle business for a long, long time. That began changing in earnest in late 2022 and early 2023, however.