Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically validated text optimization.

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Large-scale systems rely on heuristics to tackle NP-hard problems such as traffic engineering, virtual machine placement, and packet scheduling. While these heuristics are efficient, they can exhibit ...

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What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Each year when MD+DI editors sit down to discuss Medtech Company of the Year prospects, the companies that rise to the top for us tend to be those that have had a transformational year either through ...

ABSTRACT: Multi-objective optimization remains a significant and realistic problem in engineering. A trade-off among conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints is known as ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...