A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

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A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

Many basic life skills seem harder for children to master now compared to the past. Some teachers think this is because of an ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

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Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction is proposing a "Portrait of a Graduate" initiative to focus on life skills. Critics express concern that this new focus may detract from improving poor ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

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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 ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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