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For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed. Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen long-standing questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathematical ideas. On Monday, Anthropic announced that an as-yet-unreleased model had made significant progress on the…

Twas the night before Jeff Dean left Google, and he was up at 2 a.m. responding to messages.Dean left the search giant last week to build his own AI startup, Discovery Loop. He was Google’s 30th employee, spending decades climbing the ladder to his final role of chief scientist. So, he had a lot of goodbye chats to respond to.At the KDD Conference in Jeju, South Korea, Dean shared the hourly schedule of his final two days at Google.”For my Google colleagues who might have sent me internal chat messages after I closed my laptop for a final time on…

As schools wrestle with how to handle AI in the classroom, Fei-Fei Li says the biggest danger is not that students will use AI to cheat — it’s that it will erode their ability to learn.”The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human-level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools,” Li, who is widely known as the “Godmother of AI,” said on an episode of the science podcast “Huberman Lab” released on Monday.”It should not be taken away by humans nor should it be taken away by machines,” she said.If AI is…

Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artists with “AI Persona” profile tags and ban their music from its editorial and algorithmic recommendations, the company announced on Tuesday. In mid-September, Spotify users will see “AI Persona” badges appear on some artists’ profiles that signal the artist’s identity is AI-generated, instead of representing a real person. While Spotify will allow artists to identify themselves as AI Personas, the company says it won’t rely on self-disclosure alone. Image Credits:Spotify It will also review artist profiles and identify those where the artist’s name and imagery appear to represent photorealistic AI-generated identities. Spotify said it will…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary education five years after the Taliban took over the country, a U.N. agency said Tuesday, renewing a call for an immediate restoration of their right to education.UNESCO, the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said the continued exclusion of women and girls from education amounted to a grave violation of their fundamental rights.“Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls and women are formally banned from secondary and higher education,” Hoda Jaberian, UNESCO’s program coordinator for education in emergencies, said in a news…

Anthropic will watermark text generated by its models, including Claude, to comply with European regulations, the company now says. The AI model maker confirmed the watermarking in an updated support page. EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which took effect on August 2, requires AI companies to mark AI-generated or edited content in a way other systems can identify them. Anthropic said that all models released after August 2 will automatically have tech to watermark both computer-generated text and files. For files, the company is using the C2PA open standard. The company said it will extend support for older models as…

Work trials can be a way for both candidate and company to see if a job is a good fit, but Cursor’s head of talent says some employers get it wrong. A big mistake is making the work trial too focused on getting something out of the candidate, Adam Ward, Cursor’s head of talent, said on an episode of “Lenny’s Podcast” released Sunday.”This is where most companies get it wrong on the on-site,” Ward said. “They’re almost always buying. This is like ‘we are assessing. We’re extracting information. We’re not giving much back to the candidate.'” Instead, Ward says that…

AI can do a lot, but it can’t replace human taste and judgment.Coinbase CTO Rob Witoff told Business Insider that those are the traits that make engineering candidates stand out nowadays. As AI takes over routine tasks, Witoff said engineers will increasingly be expected to tackle “much harder strategy decisions.”That means the company wants developers who aren’t “working in a single lane,” he said.”We want people that can step back and really understand why they’re doing something,” Witoff said.What it means to have ‘taste and judgment’In a July blog post on the topic, Coinbase describes taste and judgement as “Knowing…

The founder of one of legal tech’s buzziest startups says a move away from the software seat was only “a matter of time.”Since the rise of cloud software, companies have mostly charged for it by the user. A business bought a subscription for a set number of licenses, or “seats,” and paid roughly the same whether employees used it religiously or hardly at all.Max Junestrand started Legora, which sells software to the legal industry, at the tail end of software’s great subscription boom. Three years later, that playbook is starting to break down. Artificial intelligence is scrambling the economics of…

Mark Zuckerberg is often sparing with his words. On Monday, he published over 6,000 of them.Executives from the leading AI companies keep writing long, long manifestos. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is the biggest player in lengthy essay-writing. His “Machines of Loving Grace” — which clocks in at over 13,000 words — has been printed, bound, and given out as merch.Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has taken to posting long essays this year about the AI economy, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman writes blog posts about the future. Maybe the only abstainer is Elon Musk, who seems to prefer shorter posts and…