Richard Sutton says the industry’s turn to synthetic data is “a big mistake”. His objection is narrower, and more interesting ...

Sam Altman says the singularity is here and will be ‘hugely positive, awesome for the world.’ So what is the singularity, and ...

The Qur’anic story of Moses عليه السلام and the Golden Calf is usually read as a story about idolatry in its clearest form: a people who had seen signs, crossed the sea, and yet, in Moses’ عليه السلام ...

Kaum aber hatte es einen Bissen davon im Mund, so fiel es tot zur Erde nieder… However, the apple was so artfully made that ...

In the tycoon’s telling, humanity is on the cusp of “sustainable abundance”. Work is optional. Poverty is abolished. It is a beguiling vision, but also naive.

The history of computing contains a recurring pattern: the infrastructure arrives first, and the language that makes it ...

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For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him. By Claire Moses Reporting from London ...

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic When people think of Alan Turing, they might imagine he was arrogant, isolated, ...

A story written by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing suggests he was a man with playful humour embracing his homosexuality, according to new analysis. The six-page hand-written short story, ...

OpenAI's unreleased Astra model has produced what its October 2025 announcement only pretended to: genuine solutions to ten long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, ...