Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

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The longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

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They will let Trump be Trump, but everyone else needs to stay focused on the economy.

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By striking down President Trump’s tariffs, the Supreme Court has once again shown that it is no partisan instrument of ...

It also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman told a packed pavilion. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of ...

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