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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly disappear. No one had ever collected them systematically, cleaned them, and made them available, not for AI researchers testing the limits of mathematical reasoning, and not for the students around the world training for these competitions largely on their own.Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and the company HUMAIN have now done exactly that.MathNet is the largest high-quality dataset…

It has happened in AI, and it did not even whisper. No, it did not just enhance AI. Now it is going to try to take your job, not sort of, but really.That has been the plan all along: to bring “AI agents” into the company as its most important corporate tool, tools to not just respond to your questions but to perform actions. Not just to chat like a robot, but to plan actions, to take action, to use tools, to complete actions. It is almost like a colleague!Now, hold on for a moment as I give it some…

Key TakeawaysThe best AI productivity system is not the biggest one, but the one that fits your workflow and helps you move faster with less friction.Most people choose AI tools the wrong way by following trends instead of starting with the real bottlenecks in their work..AI tools should be chosen by function, such as writing, research, design, automation, or meetings, not just by popularity.Platforms like TopCollection.ai can make tool selection easier by helping you browse AI tools by category and compare options that match your needs.A vast majority of individuals are handling AI productivity tools in the opposite direction.They begin…

Confidence is persuasive. In artificial intelligence systems, it is often misleading.Today’s most capable reasoning models share a trait with the loudest voice in the room: They deliver every answer with the same unshakable certainty, whether they’re right or guessing. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have now traced that overconfidence to a specific flaw in how these models are trained, and developed a method that fixes it without giving up any accuracy.The technique, called RLCR (Reinforcement Learning with Calibration Rewards), trains language models to produce calibrated confidence estimates alongside their answers. In addition to coming up…

This week, something significant happened. Rather than testing the waters in their own way, a big European bank has made a leap into Artificial Intelligence. They’re doing this in partnership with Accenture and Anthropic in order to build an entire AI hub, and it sends a message across the sector: get in line or fall behind!Piraeus Bank, Accenture and Anthropic will build a centralized AI engine to help the bank transform its operations.Okay, hold on a minute. I know what you might be thinking. We’ve been bombarded with this rhetoric for some time: AI will change banking! And while this…

There was a time when the field of information technology was largely seen as a male-dominated space. Today, that perception is steadily changing. In Nepal, women are not only entering highly technical fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, but are also taking on leadership roles and actively participating to shape the future of innovation. At Fusemachines, the journeys of Pralisha Kansakar, ML Engineer, and Bishakha Pande, AI Services Manager, reflect that change. Although they come from different academic and professional backgrounds, both have built successful careers in AI through curiosity, persistence, and a commitment to continuous learning.…

It’s a concept that both scares and delights: the possibility that aging might not be an inevitable human fate, as was once assumed. It seemed like the kind of thing that only exists in science fiction along with flying cars and teleportation for the foreseeable future.Now though, we have a new and rapidly growing tool for doing just that: artificial intelligence.Researchers and other experts are currently suggesting that artificial intelligence is capable of solving one of the hardest questions in biology, how to decelerate, halt and reverse the process of ageing itself. This is not necessarily about making us live…

The alert wasn’t blared out with sirens; however it should probably have been. It seems that in some of the more closed-off policy rooms and on the hurried internal bulletins of European banking and financial oversight bodies, authorities are beginning to suspect something frightening. The upcoming financial apocalypse may not be created by any of our fellow homo sapiens.First of all, it’s an AI model that can test a system, figure out its vulnerabilities, and in certain conditions, exploit them. Per multiple anonymous industry sources, the ECB has begun reaching out to banks to ask them how they’re feeling about…

MIT Associate Professor Jacob Andreas of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EECS] and MIT Associate Professor Brett McGuire of the Department of Chemistry have been selected as the winners of the 2026 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. Established in 1982 as a permanent tribute to Institute Professor Emeritus Harold E. Edgerton’s great and enduring support for younger faculty members, this award is given annually in recognition of exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service.“The Department of Chemistry is extremely delighted to see Brett recognized for science that has changed how we think about carbon in space,” says Class of…

Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful models into the hands of scientists.The problem is that most scientists aren’t machine-learning experts. Now the company OpenProtein.AI is helping scientists stay on the cutting edge of AI with a no-code platform that gives them access to powerful foundation models and a suite of tools for designing proteins, predicting protein structure and function, and training models.The company, founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT associate professor Tim…