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After a career spanning BET, startups and Ryan Reynolds’s ad firm, Michael Pickrum is bringing his experience to The Knot.

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, smartest or healthiest child. But these tests cannot deliver what they promise.

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

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Today’s “large language models” like ChatGPT don’t have the training to act in users’ best interest, but an MIT professor hopes to teach them how.