Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. Zeb Smathers thought he’d seen it all. Smathers is the mayor of Canton, N.C., which in 2021 suffered ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

At the end of the first quarter, Berkshire Hathaway had $390.7 billion on its books in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments in U.S. Treasury bills. That's a 14% increase from Berkshire's ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Georgia 400 express lanes project begins with major upgrades planned. New toll lanes aim to reduce congestion along 16-mile stretch. Nightly closures underway; project expected to finish by 2030.

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Major construction on the Georgia 400 express lanes is scheduled to begin in early April, marking a significant phase in a 16-mile project that spans from Sandy Springs to ...

US moves airborne troops, Marines as Iran rejects ceasefire, raising ground war potential 2026 'Dirty Dozen' produce: Nearly 100% tested positive for pesticides, including 'forever chemicals' Full ...

A new AI framework called THOR is transforming how scientists calculate the behavior of atoms inside materials. Instead of relying on slow simulations that take weeks of supercomputer time, the system ...

The International Energy Agency's 32 member countries agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil to address the Iran war supply disruption. It is the largest release of emergency stockpiles in the ...