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'Proof by intimidation': AI is confidently solving 'impossible' math problems. But can it convince the world's top mathematicians?

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we ...
Quanta Magazine

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues. The trajectory of a storm ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...
U.S. News & World Report

Savannah Guthrie's Demand for Mom's 'Proof of Life' Is Complicated in This Era of AI and Deepfakes

Savannah Guthrie's Demand for Mom's 'Proof of Life' Is Complicated in This Era of AI and Deepfakes When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send ...
Wired

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...
PBS

Savannah Guthrie's demand for mom's 'proof of life' is complicated in this era of AI and deepfakes

When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send "proof of life," she addressed the possibility of people creating deepfakes. "We live in a world ...
PBS

What to know about how the SAVE America Act could change voting

Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are again pushing for legislation that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. The Trump-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or ...
The New York Times

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...
New York Post

First Nancy Guthrie ransom note deadline expires — as sheriff says ‘we believe Nancy is still out there’

TUCSON, Arizona — The clock is ticking in the hunt for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother after a purported ransom note demanded millions of dollars in bitcoin ahead of two deadlines, cops ...
Investopedia

Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
The New York Times

House Passes Strict Voter ID Bill, Amplifying Trump’s Claims of Fraud

The measure had no path forward in the Senate, where Democrats are all but certain to block it and Republicans have said they will not try to skirt filibuster rules to ram it through. By Annie Karni ...