Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Every day, millions of people open Wordle and stare at five empty boxes, hoping the right first guess will unlock the puzzle.

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

Researchers have developed an easy-to-use tool that enables someone to perform complicated statistical analyses on tabular data using just a few keystrokes. Their method combines probabilistic AI ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

When rumors spread that Netanyahu had been killed, Polymarket's betting contracts told a different story — pricing the probability of him leaving office at just 4–5%, even as the conspiracy dominated ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

A six-state pilot program will target 'wasteful care' under Medicare Medicare programs in six states will face prior authorizations under a new pilot program. Traditional Medicare in six states will ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals (RXRX) added ~11% in the morning trading on Wednesday after J.P. Morgan upgraded the AI-driven biotech to Overweight from Neutral, citing a blockbuster sales potential for ...

We study machine learning formulations of inductive program synthesis; given input-output examples, we try to synthesize source code that maps inputs to corresponding outputs. Our aims are to develop ...