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On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, the group is meant to give mathematicians more input into the company’s math-oriented research.

In the past 24 hours, Silicon Valley has erupted in bitter debate over what may seem from the outside to be an esoteric, trivial issue: the solution to a longstanding math problem which, despite its importance among academics, doesn’t have any clear practical applications. And yet it raises urgent new questions about the nature of…

New allegations surfaced that the Rank Math WordPress plugin has introduced a functionality that silently gives the company administrator-level permissions over WordPress sites. The access is triggered when a user is connected to a free Rank Math account and the user opens the plugin’s Help & Support section.

Rank Math has decided to temporarily pause their Support Agent because it did not clearly communicate that the agent would generate credentials that gave it access to their user’s WordPress website.

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and also the cynosure of mathematicians from around the globe after he proved the famous Crouzeix’s conjecture with a little bit of help from ChatGPT. The math problem had troubled mathematicians for over two decades but was solved by Jin…

If you ask a commercial director of an e-commerce supply chain how to reduce parcel delivery spends, they will almost always give you the same answer: “Get a bigger base-rate discount.”—