For the three-year period ended 2025, the portion of families behind on loan payments soared from about 12% in the prior survey to nearly 20%, according to a Fed survey released Friday. That was the ...

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Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. In August, OpenAI ...

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Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

TUESDAY OCTOBER 6th 2026 may go down as one of the most consequential days in the history of mathematics. That was when OpenAI, an American artificial-intelligence firm, announced that its AI agents, ...

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