In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Stanford’s Bob Sutton describes leadership habits that spread excellence versus those that keep early wins from catching on. If you’re thinking about scaling an initiative, an innovation, a strategy, ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its global contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come just a month ...

Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no differences in overall intrinsic aptitude for science and mathematics among ...

Surge looks to fetch a valuation of over $15 billion in its first capital raise Scale AI faces customer losses after Meta's investment Surge AI's high-end services attract major clients like Google ...

Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang is such an enthusiastic networker that his former roommate — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman — once jokingly told him to tone it down a bit. Fortunately for ...

Alexandr Wang, 28, is the billionaire founder of Scale AI, an AI training data startup. Wang told employees in a memo last week that he is leaving Scale AI for Meta. Here’s what to know about Wang and ...

Amanda Meyer is affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists, the American Association for Anatomy, and the Global Neuroanatomy Network. Monika Zimanyi is ...