In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

After leaving Meta last year, the former deputy prime minister of the UK is charting a new path in the AI industry that has nothing to do with AGI.

, they say, is written by the victors. But here's the uncomfortable truth: it's also written by the forgetful, the biased, and the dramatic. Some of 's most consequential conflicts have been so ...

A reader emailed me about his aspiration to become a millionaire. I asked: “Why me? I’m a person with an unexplained poverty.” Joel (not his real name) insisted that my critical thinking skills could ...