P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

In an era of abundant AI processing, "integral thinking" — the human ability to synthesize insights across diverse domains — is the new essential strategic scarcity.

A bright yellow blob with no brain, no neurons, and no central nervous system has done something that sounds impossible: it ...

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Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

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Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos: Jared C. Tilton / Getty Images Brian Campbell isn’t offended by the question, but he knows it’s coming: What’s it like to compete as the shortest ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...