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In the end it turned out okay.” Eastman recently left OpenAI to start a new company, Thinking Machines, which lets him work on projects with which he finds himself more “philosophically aligned.” Any ...

A new study has confirmed that sharks follow established patterns when it comes to body size, and this finding could change ...

By attacking Iran, President Trump has shown he is willing to engage in a distant war. This raises questions in Beijing about ...

Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Across the country, artificial intelligence tools are changing the teaching profession as educators use them to help write ...

Across the country, artificial intelligence tools are changing the teaching profession as educators use them to help write ...