For a brief period after the Cold War, Americans persuaded themselves that the liberal order had become self-sustaining. And ...

Ronald Lauder said that Israel has an image problem and needs professional help. He’s right, up to a point. The billionaire cosmetic heir is a personal friend of both Trump and Netanyahu. Iran fired a ...

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 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Recursive Superintelligence has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation in a funding round led by GV and Greycroft, according to the company. The round also included participation from AMD ...

President Trump described the US-China relationship as “very strong” and touted that he and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have “settled a lot of different problems” others couldn’t. “This has ...

Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with $650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led ...

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Why would a harmless practice whose value is symbolic at best trigger such a violent reaction? (After all, king or no king, Igbos in South Africa—which is the same for Igbos anywhere in the ...

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