What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Grok 4.5 constructed a counterexample proving hypercontractivity fails on the 4-sphere, closing a decades-old gap in ...

Precision Periodic has announced plans to build America's first modular, clean-process refinery for battery-grade nickel, ...

Nvidia introduces Diffusion Nemotron, a 60-billion parameter two-tower AI model that uses parallel block processing to speed up text generation.

American Fusion Inc. (OTC: AMFN) (profile), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Kepler Fusion(TM), is developing the Texatron(TM), a compact, aneutronic (little to no radiation) truck-deployable ...

Call it the 10% Rule: design a product with conventional methods today, and statistically, less than one unit in ten of ...

The battle for AI hardware is heating up, and Qualcomm just launched a direct assault on NVIDIA's dominance. The company has reached a deal to acquire Modular Inc., an AI software infrastructure ...

Qualcomm is buying artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Modular to bolster its AI portfolio. Modular's tools help businesses run AI more efficiently. Qualcomm wants to expand its footprint ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, ...

The latest Social Security Trustees Report contains a warning that neither political party should ignore. If Congress fails to act, Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to become ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...