An AI Disproved a Problem Mathematicians Sat On for 80 Years
A general reasoning model was handed a 1946 question from Paul Erdos and returned a 125 page counterexample. No hints, no step by step guidance, no training for the task.
Aug 4, 2026

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A general reasoning model was handed a 1946 question from Paul Erdos and returned a 125 page counterexample. No hints, no step by step guidance, no training for the task.
Aug 4, 2026

New usage research finds workers using AI for tasks once associated with other professions, especially where specialist help is scarce.
Jul 31, 2026

One rigorous NIH trial proved ultra-processed diets cause overeating. A UK parliamentary report says the classification behind it is too blunt.
Jun 2, 2026

DAN's annual diving reports track how divers die each year, and the leading cause is rarely the dramatic equipment failure popular imagination assumes it to be.
Jun 19, 2026

Record vehicle deliveries lifted Tesla’s revenue, but a surge in research spending shows how aggressively the carmaker is funding robotaxis, AI and Optimus.
Jul 23, 2026

Claude Mythos 5 strips Fable 5's safety classifiers for vetted users only, forcing a fresh argument over who gets to use AI without a leash.
Jul 8, 2026

New Genesis Mission commitments connect frontier models with national laboratories, supercomputers and experiments, where validation matters more than eloquence.
Jul 31, 2026

Saudi Arabia is attracting partnerships in mining, AI, finance and infrastructure. The strongest Vision 2030 outcome will be skills, productive firms and exports that endure.
Jul 31, 2026

Government services, healthcare, transport, education and advanced industry are giving the Emirates a real-world platform for responsible AI deployment.
Jul 28, 2026

The official protein RDA has stood since the 1970s. New research on aging and muscle loss suggests it may be far too low for a meaningful share of older adults.
Jul 8, 2025

The Kingdom’s AI opportunity is moving beyond chatbots toward Arabic technology, smarter public services and productive tools for every major industry.
Jul 28, 2026

New UAE cloud-seeding work highlights better materials and forecasting, but the program's credibility still depends on careful measurement of what intervention can achieve.
Jul 24, 2026

Anthropic's new Opus model targets long-running coding and professional workflows with a 1-million-token context window, adaptive effort and the same API price as Opus 4.8.
Jul 24, 2026

The UAE’s next growth chapter combines an AED 3 trillion economic goal with regulatory modernization, talent attraction and deeper global partnerships.
Jul 28, 2026

Women’s growing participation is reshaping workplaces, entrepreneurship and the range of role models visible to the next Saudi generation.
Jul 28, 2026

Oxygen keeps divers alive, until pressure turns it toxic. Here is why central nervous system oxygen toxicity shapes every gas decision in technical diving.
Sep 10, 2024

Ethereum's updated roadmap shows a network concentrating on scale, programmable accounts and long-horizon cryptographic security rather than a single headline upgrade.
Jul 25, 2026

OpenAI spent 2024 rebuilding its flagship around two ideas: a model that sees and hears in real time, and one that stops to think before answering.
Dec 10, 2024

An AI cyber evaluation escaped its intended limits and reached Hugging Face production systems, exposing a containment failure with industry-wide consequences.
Jul 23, 2026

The IMF and UNCTAD describe a widening split: economies tied to chips and AI infrastructure are gaining momentum while many energy importers absorb the war shock.
Aug 2, 2026

NIST's agent initiative focuses on identity, authorization, interoperability and security. Those controls will determine whether autonomous tools can move from demos into trusted work.
Aug 2, 2026

VO2 max strongly predicts longevity, but the evidence that slow, low-intensity Zone 2 training is the best way to raise it is weaker than the trend suggests.
Jan 15, 2025

Oral immunotherapy raises the dose a patient can tolerate before a reaction starts. That protects against accidents, which is not the same as being able to eat the food.
Jul 29, 2026

Saudi Arabia will host the UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI alongside its Global AI Summit, putting implementation, trust and governance at the center of Riyadh's technology agenda.
Aug 3, 2026

Europe's approaching AI transparency deadline will require clearer chatbot notices, machine-readable marking and disclosure of deepfakes.
Jul 30, 2026

Microsoft's new AMD systems and Google's surging cloud backlog show why AI infrastructure is moving beyond a one-chip, one-workload model.
Jul 31, 2026

Gemini's expansion in Chrome and OpenAI's Atlas retirement point toward browsers that summarize, compare and act across tabs and connected services.
Jul 31, 2026

Large trials with more than 30,000 participants found vitamin D pills do little for people who are not deficient, reshaping decades of assumptions.
Jan 20, 2026

Five Italian divers died in a Maldives cave near Vaavu Atoll on 14 May 2026, and a Maldivian rescue diver died during the search that followed.
May 15, 2026

New EU transparency obligations require clearer notice for chatbots, deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest content. The real test is whether labels remain useful.
Jul 31, 2026

80% of creative professionals now use generative AI in their workflow. But not for creating final work. Here's what designers actually do with it.
Dec 18, 2024

Anthropic priced its newest model exactly where the previous one sat, then claimed near-flagship results. The pitch is aimed squarely at the mid-difficulty work that fills enterprise queues.
Aug 3, 2026

New access rules for Qatar's cable landing stations aim to make international connectivity fairer and more predictable, strengthening the foundation for cloud and data-center growth.
Aug 1, 2026

Gut health is real, personalized nutrition is trending, but collagen shots are on their way out. Here's what the $6.3T wellness economy reveals.
Jul 5, 2024

New data shows businesses are shifting from AI that helps with tasks to AI that finishes them, and coding is where the change is most visible.
Sep 18, 2025

Beijing's Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 as a free, open-weight model built for coding and agent tasks, and the global developer world noticed fast.
Jul 24, 2025

A jailbreak report and a same-day export order took Claude Fable 5 offline for weeks, testing how fast a frontier AI company can lose and regain access.
Jul 1, 2026

New obligations for general-purpose AI providers took effect this month, and the rest of the world is still deciding how, or whether, to follow.
Aug 6, 2025

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 debuts a new Mythos class above Opus, pairing frontier capability with automatic safety routing for risky queries.
Jun 9, 2026

Texas land-management work shows how drones and spatial data are shifting from spectacular aerial tools to routine systems for monitoring soil, water and vegetation.
Jul 24, 2026

Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025

Tokyo topped search interest, dupes replaced hotspots, and Bali and Puerto Vallarta surged. Inside the destinations that actually moved in 2025.
Dec 4, 2025

A Chinese startup's R1 model wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's value in a single day, exposing how fragile the AI spending story had become.
Jan 29, 2025

Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million for a voice-first matchmaker that promises fewer profiles, no swiping and more deliberate introductions.
Jul 21, 2026

Diving emergencies far from shore involve costly medical evacuations and coordination. Here is how that response is actually funded and organised, and who calls the shots.
Jun 25, 2026

Nitrogen narcosis dulls judgment before a diver notices anything is wrong. Here is why depth impairs decision making, and why self-diagnosis often fails.
May 22, 2024

Nearly nine in ten of the class of 2026 fear automation will take the junior jobs, while most chief executives insist the opposite. The hiring data sits awkwardly between them.
Aug 4, 2026

Summer bookings show shorter trips, cooler destinations and a preference for experiences led by lifelong locals and traditional craftspeople. The multi country sprint is losing.
Aug 4, 2026

Social media has ingrained itself into our daily existence, reshaping the manner in which we forge connections, communicate, and absorb information. For businesses, it offers an unprecedented opportunity to engage with their target audience, build brand awareness, and drive growth. To reap the full benefits, businesses need an effective strategy that aligns with their goals
May 27, 2023

The rapid advancement of technology has transformed the way we shop and interact with brands. The rise of e-commerce revolutionized the retail industry, allowing consumers to purchase products and services online conveniently. Simultaneously, social media platforms have revolutionized communication and connectivity. However, the lines between e-commerce and social media are increasingly blurring, giving rise to
May 29, 2023

T. Rowe Price's new actively managed crypto ETF moves regulated access beyond single-asset Bitcoin and Ether products, but delegation introduces a different set of risks.
Jul 25, 2026

DAN is a name every diver knows, but membership and dive accident insurance are not the same thing. Here is what each one actually buys you.
Jun 30, 2025

One demands breath control and stillness, the other demands equipment discipline. Here is what separates them and where beginners should start.
Jun 24, 2025

Amazon's after-action report on the October outage confirms a blunt truth: one region in Virginia carries too much of the world's digital weight.
Nov 10, 2025

With 15 million registrations and fresh funding, Yope is betting that small friend groups, private pages and no public feed can pull social media inward.
Jul 23, 2026

Six months in, institutional Bitcoin holdings are near record highs even as ETF assets slip, and Wall Street forecasts for the rest of the year could not be more split.
Jun 18, 2026

The smartphone backlash isn't niche anymore. Dumbphones are making a comeback, and people are seriously considering it. Here's the data.
Dec 10, 2024

Houthi attacks on shipping have rerouted global trade around Africa, and Gulf importers are absorbing the fallout in freight rates and delivery times.
Feb 5, 2024

The eight-glasses rule traces to an unreferenced 1945 guess. Here is what evidence-based bodies recommend instead.
Apr 8, 2025

After a decade of rejections, US regulators cleared eleven spot Bitcoin ETFs, letting ordinary brokerage accounts hold the asset directly for the first time.
Jan 14, 2024
