In a head-to-head academic benchmark, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 edged out OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.5, demonstrating stronger reasoning and mathematical rigor. The comparison involved seven challenging ...

Claude Opus 4.7 has decisively outperformed ChatGPT-5.5 in a series of seven challenging reasoning and problem-solving tests, winning every round. The evaluation, which included logic puzzles, ...

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The Wall Street titan Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $170 million for what he said was tax and estate work. But his services went beyond that. Credit...Illustration by Anna Kliewer; source images by ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

However, people must first realize there’s a problem and understand how technology can solve it before AI can make a meaningful difference. When things click, it’s always a matter of consumer ...

When a startup struggles, founders usually assume the solution is obvious: more marketing, more hiring, or more capital. But in my experience advising founders, the real issue is usually something ...

A crowd of over 400 gathered in Van Vleck Hall to hear Grant Sanderson, a STEM content creator known by his YouTube handle 3Blue1Brown, talk about high-dimensional spheres in a Feb. 13 event hosted by ...