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Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

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The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...

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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 ...

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Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) is the total number of calories your body burns in a 24-hour period. It includes every calorie your body uses - from keeping your heart beating while you ...