A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

A lighthearted example showing how men naturally step in to solve problems. Why 7 GOP senators voted against bill to keep government open past Friday US health officials monitor deadly virus Rob ...

The NFL has a catch rule problem. And, as it does with plenty of other issues, the NFL seems to be content to ignore it. Or to claim that there’s no problem at all. Via Mark Maske of the Washington ...

The “4% rule” isn’t one rule — fixed percentage, fixed dollar, and inflation-adjusted withdrawals behave very differently in real markets. Ramsey’s 8% claim assumes flexible spending, not ...

The president’s approval ratings are plummeting and most Americans see him as an aberration. It is now up to them to curtail his despotic reign Donald Trump is a monster, and a stupid one at that – as ...

The president’s approval ratings are plummeting and most Americans see him as an aberration. It is now up to them to curtail his despotic reign, writes Simon Tisdall President Donald Trump's bid to ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem advised reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may ask some Americans for proof of citizenship during enforcement ...

The AI bots are becoming widespread among large companies, even as a range of cybersecurity and tech governance issues still need to be ironed out. Sasan Goodarzi took Intuit from a tax software ...

WASHINGTON — In his first public testimony before Congress about his investigations into President Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith warned Americans not to take the rule of law for ...