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

When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past ...

Formative assessment strategies are essential tools in the educational arsenal of elementary school teachers. Defined as assessments that occur during the learning process, they provide valuable ...

There is an alarm bell going off in consumer credit. Just not the typical one. According to tracking by the New York Fed, the percentage of credit-card loan balances that were 90 days or more ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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 ...

Plastic has become the symbol of ocean pollution, but what if it's not the real problem? This video investigates the surprising reality behind marine plastic waste, from the vast expanse of the Great ...

Companies are shifting from running everything on the most powerful AI model to matching each task to the right one, a practice called model routing. The pressure for efficiency comes as large ...

In Q1 2026, VentureBeat's Pulse Research surfaced the “Governance Mirage”: the gap between the governance org charts enterprises had drawn and the control layers they had actually built. Forty-three ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

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 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...