An unreleased version of Claude has made strides on a problem related to the Riemann hypothesis. It improved the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis, increasing it from 41.6% to 67.2%.

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Some of the discussion online has been about how not to use AI in making academic talks (see, e.g., this post by Jessica Hullman). A junior researcher asked my opinion on using AI to help make slid…

For the first time since the Columbia University and Slavery seminar began in 2014, students have identified a living descendant of someone enslaved by a Columbia affiliate.