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The Verge 1 month ago 22
AI systems solving advanced mathematics has triggered an existential crisis among some leading mathematicians about what mathematics is and what mathematicians will do next. The debate followed OpenAI’s publication of “10 Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.” Funding and employment models may shift as AI labs increasingly treat math proofs as computable tasks, while human training and grant value face new scrutiny.
Fortune 20 ● 3 sources
Google and the UK-backed airspace trial will instruct hundreds of flights over the northeastern Atlantic to use small altitude changes to avoid contrail formation over the next two winters. The 30-month Operation Blue Skies program will run test periods during this winter and next, with some flights deviating up to 2,000 feet (610 meters). This expands contrail-reduction testing from individual airlines to a whole airspace corridor, aiming to demonstrate lower contrails through coordinated reroutes and provide a blueprint for other corridors.
Apple Machine Learning Research 1 month ago 40
The paper proposes an iterative pseudo-labeling method to improve Mandarin-English code-switching ASR by using unlabeled speech to create semi-supervised training data.
Apple Machine Learning Research 1 month ago 45
Cross-lingual knowledge transfer is presented as essential for training multilingual language models on low-data languages, because key knowledge for downstream tasks must come mainly from a high-resource language when target data is scarce. No specific number, date, or benchmark appears in the provided excerpt. The approach described shifts to using lexical interventions to move knowledge across languages under data constraints.
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16 October 2026
AI infrastructure kept the spotlight today, and it wasn’t just abstract “compute demand.” TSMC posted a record profit for its sixth straight quarter—Q3 net income up 68.7% to 763 billion New Taiwan dollars (about $24 billion)—and also moved the needle on Elon Musk’s planned Terafab chip factory by setting conditions that the facility be run by TSMC, tightening the control question that will determine how quickly new capacity can actually feed cutting-edge models.
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