AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems
Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics
Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons. Levitt is most famous for building “Levittowns,” developments of thousands of homes built rapidly in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. By optimizing the construction process with improvements like standardized products and reverse...
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.
The recent Windows crashes are downstream from trying to encourage competition in areas Microsoft should have never made open to begin with, highlighting the challenge for regulators.
And its controversial actions during the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
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For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating America’s telephone infrastructure. It manufactured the phones and electrical equipment, laid hundreds of millions of miles of wire across the country, and built and operated the switchboards and exchanges that made it possible for anyone with a phone to call anyone else.
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The first thing you should know about becoming a ball boy or ball girl at Wimbledon is that the process is no joke.
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Greetings from Read Max HQ! First, an important request of readers: For a piece I’m writing, I’m looking for stories of strange encounters with A.I. slop, usually defined as unwanted and unreviewed uses of generative A.I. In particular I’m interested in examples of slop found off of the big platforms, so not just
Photo: Ted Wells A few years ago, in Bozeman, Montana, a brain surgeon and his wife were walking through a farmers’ market when they came across a booth selling…
A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique: it’s just one of many companies providing phone, internet, and other communication services. By market cap, AT&T is less than 10% of the value of Amazon, and around 4% of the value of Apple.
July 2024. Part of “Letters from the Lab”, a series of essays on my research written for patrons. You can also listen to this essay (29 minutes). If you want to…
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?
AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.
“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”
There is a new clear best (non-tiny) LLM. If you want to converse with an LLM, the correct answer is Claude Sonnet 3.5. It is available for free on Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, or you can subscribe for higher rate limits. The API cost is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
This is kind of amazing: Calculating Empires is a project by Kate Crawford and Kate Crawford attempting to map how technology and
A trolley is about to run over five people, but your dad gets distracted by a nearby sports bar playing The Shawshank Redemption on one of their ou...
Many microbes and cells are in deep sleep, waiting for the right moment to activate. Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast.
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Brave New World Dept. Nanotechnology can already puncture cancer cells and drug-resistant…
Fields Medalist Terence Tao explains how proof checkers and AI programs are dramatically changing mathematics
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the challenges of accelerating the American AI data center buildout. Future pieces will be published
During my recent trip to the Bay Area, I met lots of people who are involved in the field of AI. My general impression is that this region has more smart people than anywhere else, at least per capita. And not just fairly smart, I'm talking about extremely high IQ individuals. I don't claim to have met a representative cross
Over the last eight years, Ryan Wilson has been traveling all over the world by bike on an extended tour and has learned plenty of lessons planning trips along the way. Below, Ryan dives into some of the most frequent questions that people ask when they're looking to plan their first bike tour. Back in 2015, I was living my normal adult life in Los Angeles, California. I had never traveled outside of North America or even owned a passport. I had only ever camped a handful...
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