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The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

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Here are the solutions to the math problems and trivia questions featured in Netflix’s Alice in Borderland season 3.

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(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

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24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

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