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It dawned on me in early March this year, on the Caribbean island of Barbados, of all places. Konrad Kording, in swimming trunks, stood in front of about 30 PIs with backgrounds mostly in neuroscience and machine learning and live-demoed Claude Code, using a projector hardly visible in the broad daylight. He asked Claude to…

The International Congress of Mathematicians met in Philadelphia last month, its first U.S. meeting since 1986. Minutes after accepting the Fields Medal, mathematics’s highest honor, Jacob Tsimerman told reporters he was leaving academia to work on AI safety. “I think the world is changing,” he said, adding that he did not expect the mathematical career…

Spam calls, phishing texts, and elaborate scams arrive on our phones daily. For many people, the moment of panic that follows is matched only by confusion: What should I do right now? Who do I report this to? Will my report actually matter?