Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

SHANGHAI—Hundreds of vendors at Shanghai’s largest clothing market were very busy. But they weren’t making sales. They were processing returns. At Qipu Road Wholesale Clothing Market, wholesalers send ...

Welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…AI is outperforming some professionals…Google plans to bring ads to Gemini…leading AI labs team up on AI agent standards…a new effort to give AI models a longer ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Neil Humphrey receives funding from various bodies including The National Lottery Community Fund to conduct research on young people's wellbeing Qiqi Cheng does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

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It’s another typical weekday and you’re on your way to work. Your commute isn’t a long one, but you know that Iowa law prohibits drivers from holding their phones while driving. As you’re traveling, ...

A social media account that positions itself as an authority on the North Carolina General Assembly posted false information about the state’s driving laws — triggering a wave of inaccurate news ...

Welcome to The Workup, a First Opinion column from Vishal Khetpal. In 1912, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Lawrence Sperry, an aviation pioneer, debuted his invention of the autopilot, as he and ...

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, ...

Engineers use feedback loops — typically negative feedback is more useful, but positive feedback is needed for oscillators. Negative feedback in an amplifier circuit, which has a negative loop gain, ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...