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“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed…

October 11, 20255 min readThe Math That Predicted the New PopeA decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missedBy Jack…

Love a good underdog story? There’s an incredible one unfolding in Cambridge right now: MIT custodians just walked in on this brilliant math student cleaning up…

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, show eighth-graders’ science scores have fallen 4 points…

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever…

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A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the…

In 2014 Mura Yakerson, a college student at the time, decided to practice driving in a quiet area in the countryside near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Then…

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares.Show puzzle solutionBonus:…