It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously ...

Part of resolving the political redistricting stalemate, writes Professor Jamie Tucker-Foltz, is creating congressional maps ...

Explore what could happen to Satoshi’s 1 million BTC if quantum computers ever break early Bitcoin addresses and expose their private keys to the first Q-Day attacker.

They're about to learn what hedge-fund investor Jim Simons proved in 1988: Having the same tools as a genius doesn't make you a genius.

ChatGPT can help with many things—creating images, looking up information, role-playing, solving math problems, programming ...

When collectors reinject liquidity into the market, it benefits everyone,” he tells Observer. “Instead of shaming people for ...

It’s a concept hard to fathom among many Gen Zers — ditching your smartphone and retiring from social media. But it's what recent Harvard alumna 24-year-old Gabriela Nguyen has fully embraced as she ...

Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...