It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

OpenAI researchers prematurely celebrated on social media, announcing that the AI had solved a series of famously difficult ...

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

When: School District of Lancaster school board meeting, Sept. 23. What happened: Elyse Minder, a J.P. McCaskey math teacher, has been named a finalist for the federal Presidential Awards for ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

Much has been written about the various attempts to create more Republican House districts through extreme gerrymandering. This column recently discussed a pending Supreme Court case that could strike ...

The bank noted it uses a conversion of $50 billion to $60 billion in total spend for every one gigawatt (GW) of AI power. Within that, it attributes 65% to 70% to “compute & networking.” This ...

Popular piracy website Streameast is back to illegally streaming sporting events, just 13 months after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized the domain. In August 2024, HSI seized several ...

The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short. By Winston Cho Disney is continuing to enforce its intellectual ...

Last year, Mickey Mouse’s appearance in Steamboat Willie became public domain, ushering in tons of horror parodies of Disney’s iconic mascot. The Walt Disney Company gave films such as the David ...

Learning math is a deeply cognitive experience. But the strength of that learning is highly influenced by emotions. The brain systems we aim to recruit in education—attention, motivation, memory, and ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...