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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

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Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster believes OpenAI used his work to rush ahead and beat him to solving a legendary math problem with a $1 million bounty. But that’s not been enough for him to stop using the company’s models—and he’s not the only mathematician that feels that way. “Even if you don’t agree with any of this, you’re kind of stuck. With AI being so useful, it’s hard to completely prevent oneself from using it,” Buckmaster tells WIRED. “These companies have a monopoly, and there is not much choice,” he adds. In the week and half since the New York University professor accused OpenAI of copying his approach, Buckmaster has been using the company’s coding agent Codex to tidy up his research papers. When he has time to do math (which he says is rare, since the fallout thrust him into the spotlight), the tool has been helping him understand the logical steps OpenAI’s agents might have taken to get from his earlier workings to the final proof. Buckmaster had used Codex as well as Anthropic’s …

When Kindness Meets Hate: What Parents Can Teach Children

When Kindness Meets Hate: What Parents Can Teach Children

Published by Jenni Sidey

Co-authored with Bridget Harris A few months ago, Sesame Street posted a simple message for Jewish American Heritage Month. The spirit of the post was unmistakable: celebration, inclusion, belonging. Yet the comment section rapidly filled with vile antisemitism before it was turned off. A post from Sesame Street—created to help children grow “smarter, stronger, and kinder”—became a target for contempt. Kindness was met with hate. For parents, educators, and all of us who care about young people, this is not simply a social media story. It is a developmental story. Children are watching how adults respond when fear rises, anger hardens, people disagree, groups are blamed, and cruelty is excused as humor, politics, or “just how people talk online.” The Jewish High Holy Days are a time to gather and reflect. They’re also an apt moment to ponder what feeds “isms” like antisemitism—and, critically, what we can teach children and teens so they do not inherit the dangerous spiral of “You hate me, I hate you; you hurt me, I hurt you back.” Feelings Are …

9 Things That Run Through Your Head When You Realize You Hate Your Job

9 Things That Run Through Your Head When You Realize You Hate Your Job

Published by Jenni Sidey

Most people get frustrated by their work from time to time, but for some, one day they realize that they absolutely cannot stand their job at all anymore. When that hard reality hits, you may find yourself staring at the clock, adding up all of the little annoyances and telling yourself you can’t keep doing this forever. Your brain may not be able to stop the racing thoughts as you question your career choices and anxiously attempt to figure out your options. When you realize you hate your job, these thoughts run through your head 1. ‘Why am I still here?’ PeopleImages | Shutterstock At some point, your frustration stops being about a difficult coworker or a meeting that drags on. You might start sitting at your desk wondering what you’re even still doing there because the job has become a daily source of dread. Maybe the paycheck is decent, or you’ve gotten comfortable with the routine. But when you spend more time thinking about quitting than imagining your future at the company, it’s probably …

Why Does Donald Trump Hate This Sculpture?

Why Does Donald Trump Hate This Sculpture?

Published by Daniella Wilson

The sculpture that Donald Trump wants removed from the National Mall has a reputation even among its admirers for being a bit inscrutable. Dedicated in 1967 at what is now the National Museum of American History, José de Rivera’s Infinity looks, fittingly, like an infinity symbol with an extra twist. (A bow? A pretzel?) By pairing the technical prowess required to create smooth, curved metal with the delicate spinning of a music box, the slow-turning work seems to take a different form each time you pass it. The museum’s architect, Walker O. Cain, wrote that Infinity “has the characteristic of stimulating everyone who has seen it to create his own personal imaginative interpretation.” But the president does not appear to have been stimulated. “That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America, inspires no one, and honors none of our Great American Heroes,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday night. Trump insisted that the Smithsonian replace Infinity with a 30-foot high “Colossus” of George Washington. In the same post, he called for the mounting of …

Hate speech against Rohingya refugees on the rise in Malaysia – The Observers

Hate speech against Rohingya refugees on the rise in Malaysia – The Observers

Published by Sam Flores

Hostile social media content, disinformation campaigns, and a petition calling for their expulsion: in Malaysia, a wave of hate speech has been targeting Rohingya refugees, a Muslim minority driven out of Myanmar. The rising hostility has already led to the eviction of more than 100 people from a village and forced the temporary closure of schools serving refugee children. For a long time, Malaysia was considered a safe country for Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. But the situation began to change in 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the emergence of hate speech online. Recently, anti-Rohingya rhetoric has taken several forms: disinformation, a petition calling on the Malaysian prime minister to expel them that got more than 400,000 signatures before it was taken down, and the spread of slogans like “Save Malaysia from the Rohingya”. The FRANCE 24 Observers team spoke with a representative of the NGO Article 19. She preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons: “The recent wave of hate speech against the Rohingya refugees has been …

Post-9/11 hate is taking a new form

Post-9/11 hate is taking a new form

Published by Sam Flores

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, hate crimes against South Asian and Arab Americans made headline news. Innocent people were murdered and harassed due to racist efforts at revenge because of how they looked and dressed. President George W. Bush was forced to denounce the trend even while he was managing America’s response and reacting to the terrorist attacks. South Asians and Arabs were fearful — and for good reason. Today, resentment towards South Asian Americans has reached levels on par with 25 years ago. Even more worrisome, the anger toward them runs deeper than fears of a physical attack.  This sentiment came to the forefront earlier this week when over 100,000 people signed a petition calling for Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, to be banned from attending a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero — an event attended by federal, state and local politicians of both parties. But apart from this recent news, this new breed of racism rarely makes the news cycle. Fortunately, as a scholar and teacher of anti-Asian racism, I …

I covered religion after the 9/11 attacks. I never imagined the hate would outlast the war.

I covered religion after the 9/11 attacks. I never imagined the hate would outlast the war.

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — I had just dropped my two little boys, ages 6 and 3, at school when news came over the car radio: First one plane, then a second, had hit the World Trade Center. I drove to a lookout on a mountain above my New Jersey town, where I could see the burning towers 14 miles east, one degree above the horizon: the width of my fingernail at arm’s length. Within hours, fighter jets scrambled over my house, and bridges and tunnels into the city closed. For the rest of that week, I worked on a 56K home dial-up I didn’t disconnect for 150 hours. My sons were unfazed, their little worlds still knee hockey in the basement and stories at bedtime. That Friday, instead of their usual after-dinner treat, I drove them up the mountain. At the lookout, candles burned on a giant stone semi-circle that looked like an altar, letters and posters taped to the rocks: grief (“Why?”), rage (“This will never happen again!”) and hope (“Let there be peace on earth”). …

Downing Street Hits Back At Trump Ambassador Who Accused UK Government Of ‘Jew Hate’

Downing Street Hits Back At Trump Ambassador Who Accused UK Government Of ‘Jew Hate’

Published by Sam Flores

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during a meeting between the ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. via Associated Press Downing Street has hit back at a close ally of Donald Trump after he accused the UK government of “Jew hate”. Mike Huckabee, who is America’s ambassador to Israel, hit out after foreign secretary Ed Miliband made a video on the “horrific” situation in Gaza. He said there had been reports of “medicines being blocked” and “children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment”. Miliband’s comments were condemned by the Israeli government, who accused him of spreading inaccurate “stories”. The Israeli foreign ministry said: “If the foreign secretary were interested in facts rather than stories, he would know that there are no restrictions whatsoever on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip, and that no medicines are being blocked; that 22,500 tons of medical supplies have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began; and that Gazans exit the Strip for medical treatment, including 200 who …

Bake Off viewers will think I either fancy or hate Paul Hollywood, says Nigella Lawson

Bake Off viewers will think I either fancy or hate Paul Hollywood, says Nigella Lawson

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There was much excitement among Great British Bake Off viewers when Nigella Lawson was announced as the new judge, with many wondering what her dynamic with Paul Hollywood would be. There’s been plenty of unverified reports about tensions behind the scenes since Lawson took over from Dame Prue Leith as a judge on the Channel 4 show, following the 86-year-old’s announcement in January that she would be stepping down. But Lawson, 66, said she isn’t fussed about these assumptions when predicting what she thinks fans will conclude when the first episode of the new series airs. ‘Bake Off’ stars Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood (Channel 4) In a new interview with The Times, she said: “What will people say of us on the programme? I feel that half will go, ‘Oh, there’s clearly something going on with them,’ and the other …

Hate AI Data Centers? Big Tech’s New Ad Campaign Aims to Change Your Mind

Hate AI Data Centers? Big Tech’s New Ad Campaign Aims to Change Your Mind

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If you’re part of the growing majority of Americans who oppose AI data centers, the US government and Big Tech have a message for you: Get over it. The backlash against these massive AI server farms — notorious for guzzling energy and water — has been countered in recent days by aggressive public statements by President Donald Trump. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that local communities that don’t want data centers will end up “backwards and poor.” He went on to liken opposition to data centers to killing the “Golden Goose,” implying that we’re all to blame for blocking economic growth. CNET And billionaire tech leaders, who have been especially cozy with the current administration, are taking to the field with a massive advertising blitz to sway public opinion, especially as November’s midterm elections approach. A group called Build American AI, funded by the pro-AI political action committee Leading the Future, is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to try to counter the tide and promote the construction of AI data centers. The campaign’s initial rollout targets key …