In a Google DeepMind experiment, AI math agents copied accepted shortcuts, closed unsolved tasks and left peers able to expose cheating but unable to reverse it.

The company’s announcement has been dogged by questions about whether it improperly used work from another research team or ...

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Generative artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly and producing such massive, long-term disruptions to education that a committee at MIT proposed profound changes Tuesday to counter the ...

A quick Excel technique can reduce repetitive work and make everyday spreadsheet tasks more efficient. Learning a few practical shortcuts can improve accuracy and speed when working with data.

Every innovation team now has the same tools: the same foundation models, similar prompt libraries. Yet the results are wildly uneven. Some teams report a creative renaissance while others report a ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

Frontline employees shape the customer experience, spot operational friction first, and determine whether new tools improve work or simply create more of it. Their motivation, judgment, and skill are ...

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The bees had to roll the ball under a blue "flower," then stand atop the moved object to access a sweet treat. Mikko Törmänen / University of Oulu Some bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, a ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...