These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...

People process lots of information about the environment while adapting as this information changes—without high energy use.

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“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

I am stewing in post-Mother’s Day resentment, but I’m not sure how much of it is my fault versus my husband’s. We have two toddlers (ages 2 and 4), and spent the weekend before Mother’s Day visiting ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Housing costs reflect both supply constraints and demand-side product expansion, including larger homes, more bathrooms, and upgraded systems. Meaningful affordability gains typically require smaller ...

This week, 8,000 Meta employees got an email by 4 a.m. their time letting them know if they were still employed. I wrote an opinion piece in the wake of those firings in which I stated very clearly ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...