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AI-assisted mathematics is no longer a parlor trick; it is beginning to compress the timeline of genuine advances, and the latest prime-gap result attributed to OpenAI’s Astra model shows how machine collaboration can move a serious number-theory frontier while forcing the community to renegotiate authorship, standards, and responsibility.

High-profile remembrance ceremonies are choreography as much as commemoration; what looks like a stray beat to viewers online is often just the mechanics of a dignitary program closing on cue.

When the people building a technology warn it may be uncontrollable, the signal deserves careful hearing: insider testimony is not a proof of malpractice, but it is the earliest barometer of governance strain at the edge of capability.

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared “independence from the Democratic Party,” he was not just changing a ballot line; he was converting a personal campaign into a referendum on what he says the party has become—warier of open debate, more intertwined with corporate and platform power, and less anchored to the New Deal–era compact with labor. The move is uncontested as fact; t...

Moments of televised fury at party conventions are not glitches in American politics; they are features of a high-stakes ritual that rewards maximalist signaling, and in 2016 one such moment turned explicitly violent when a crowd member repeatedly shouted “He should be shot!” during Senator Ted Cruz’s prime-time Republican National Convention speech in Cleveland.