About 10 minutes of relying on AI assistance for problem-solving can significantly impair a person’s ability to persist through difficult tasks, according to a study coauthored by Brian Christian, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

On October 2, 2026, Meta AI Research published six mathematics papers co-authored with human mathematicians and its Muse Spark model — five of them presenting answers to previously unsolved open ...

Artificial intelligence can help executives communicate more effectively and efficiently. But relying on it too much carries significant risks. One of the biggest is something Wade Foster, cofounder ...

Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our feature here. But with the dust still far from settled, a different controversy is emerging: Did OpenAI even solve ...

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline had become a critical alternative export route as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed. Drone attacks damaged pumping infrastructure and forced Saudi ...

As the dean of Harvard College, David J. Deming believes one of his responsibilities is to help shape the college’s response to generative AI. How should teaching change to ensure that students’ work ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...

A growing number of Americans report they are unable to quit or cut down. By Roni Caryn Rabin A growing number of Americans say their cannabis use is problematic, according to a large new study ...

One of the core tenets of productivity is to do more with less. But the opposite holds true, too — which a sneaky, pernicious trend permeating the laptop market might reveal. Microprocessor vendors ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...