CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has stated that the talk of creating a separate Tamil nation would no longer be construed as sedition under the prevailing social milieu, but someone talking so would be ...

DMK president M.K. Stalin on Sunday (June 28, 2026) accused the TVK-led government of not addressing pressing issues such as power outages and protests by farmers, and instead, indulging in diverting ...

Renowned Tamil director, actor, and screenwriter K Bhagyaraj passed away following a heart attack in Chennai on Saturday. He was 73. His passing marks the conclusion of a significant chapter in Tamil ...

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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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A recent announcement that an artificial intelligence model succeeded in solving a decades-old mathematical problem that had eluded generations of accomplished mathematicians was widely portrayed as ...

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The auto industry has been experimenting with AI-based features for years with voice assistants, predictive features, and connected services. The problem is that most of it doesn’t pay. That was the ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...