Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little ...

You have two nails in the wall and a painting with a string on its back, which can easily be rested on the nails to hang the painting. If you remove one nail, the painting will still hang on the ...

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MiniMax CTO Olive Song argues that the next generation of AI agents cannot be built on text-only models retrofitted with vision. In a ...

AI policy isn’t the only thing changing in NYC classrooms this year. From curriculum mandates to the phaseout of Regents ...

Anthropic open-sourced a working shopping agent and merchant agent on September 2, 2026, with Shopify shipping its own implementation the same day. The code ...

As schools contend with rapid developments in artificial intelligence, new research from the University of Toronto ...

One year from Monday, the city faces a self-imposed legal deadline to shut down Rikers Island, a micro-city in the East River ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today on Decoder, ...

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and also the cynosure of mathematicians from around the globe after he proved the famous Crouzeix’s ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 ...

OpenAI’s latest AI model, Astra, has gained attention for solving ten significant mathematical problems, including breakthroughs in sphere packing and geometric conjectures. These areas have ...