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Terence Tao: Maths ‘the canary in the coal mine’ on AI

Terence Tao is widely celebrated as the world’s greatest living mathematician.He was doing university-level maths at the age of 9, won Gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad at 13 - still the youngest person to have done that - and got his PHD at age 20.At 31 he won the ... Show more

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Did Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres stop disinformation bots?

Last week, Ukraine launched drone attacks against three data centres owned by Russian tech giant Yandex. After these attacks Yandex announced that they were struggling to maintain their services.This led to widespread claims that Russian disinformation campaign on social media ha ... Show more

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