For a couple of years, the main problem AI firms had was convincing people — or, more specifically, people in charge of companies — to pay for their products. Artificial-intelligence applications were ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

AI has become the newest battleground on studio lots and union floors, pitting visions of cheaper, faster production against fears that the very soul of filmmaking is up for negotiation. Movie studios ...

For two years, companies bought AI one way: pick the most powerful model and run everything through it. That era is ending. A new discipline called model routing is taking hold, sending hard tasks to ...

Key insight: Agentic AI systems can appear to be so perfect that they lull the people tasked with reviewing them into a false sense of security, which leads to undetected errors. Expert quote: "If ...

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally signed his executive order expanding the government’s efforts to conduct voluntary safety testing of frontier AI models. Now, critics are warning that the order may be ...

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The latest flare-up in the debate over AI-assisted coding did not come from a new model release or a benchmark result. It came from a single line of text buried inside a software update. Earlier this ...

Amazon's AI leaderboard sparked a tokenmaxxing trend that raised concerns about AI usage metrics, workplace productivity, and how companies measure the success of AI tools. Joshua Brown/Pexels ...

How I used to love to pepper my early writing with words like "ubiquitous" and "nascent." They certainly made me feel better, but contributed little to the communication. And I clearly remember being ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

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 ...