The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside ...

MIT students and casino mathematics come together in a story about strategy, probability, and card-counting style thinking. The title points to a group of students using math to gain an edge at ...

A new tool enters a growing AI testing market as analysts say most organizations still do not evaluate agent behavior before production. Microsoft has open-sourced an AI evaluation framework that ...

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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 ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

IPO mania has begun, and nothing kickstarts initial public offerings like spreadsheets flashing green to incite the crowd. SpaceX’s recent S-1 filing promoted an “actionable total addressable market” ...

“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 ...

Hundreds of University of California (UC) professors signed a letter demanding the reinstatement of SAT/ACT mathematics requirements for students after revealing they are re-teaching basic math to ...

A man who matched the description of the suspect in a reported assault at Lowell House followed another person into an Massachusetts Institute of Technology residence hall shortly after the Harvard ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Wednesday that research has shrunk by 10 percent in the year following cuts by the Trump administration. “Counting federal and nonfederal sources ...

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said Thursday that the school’s research enterprise has shrunk 10 percent from a year ago and warned of a persistent drop in graduate admissions as the university ...