Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

CNN Data Guru Dumps Ice Cold Water on Democrats’ Senate Hopes: ‘The Math, Simply Put ...

CNN's Harry Enten dropped bad news on Democrats, breaking down the simple "math problem" that could keep them from gaining ...

Opinion: The Real Problem With ‘Gifted’ Education

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...
Palo Alto Online

A ‘new way of thinking’ boosted math proficiency in an East Palo Alto school

The Rotary club is set to award East Palo Alto teacher Harriette Huang, who left behind a tech career to become an educator, ...

Study: Using AI Chatbots Creates Significant Learning Loss

Easy access to AI answer bots is killing learning. That’s one of the conclusions in a new and troubling study about AI use ...
Columbus Dispatch

Ohio is poised to revamp its K-12 math education. Here's what could change

A bill aimed at revamping Ohio's K-12 math education at a time when many Ohio students are falling behind in the subject may become law after passing the Ohio House on June 9. On June 9, an amended ...
The New York Times

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
The Conversation

An AI solution to an 80‑year‑old problem has shocked mathematicians

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 ...
Phys.org

Quantum supremacy just ran into an unexpected rival: An ordinary laptop armed with new math

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...
Becker's ASC

The robot math doesn’t add up. So why are ASCs buying in?

From new Mako installations, to Rosa knee systems, to spine robots from Globus Medical. surgical robots are rapidly arriving in ASCs. For many freestanding ASCs, the financial case remains difficult, ...
AZ Central

Arizona Legislature's budget math still doesn't add up | Opinion

Arizona’s budget debate is stuck in a place that no longer reflects reality. For years, state lawmakers have treated tax cuts as a default strategy, arguing that they will magically produce growth, ...