Marble enters the race to bring AI to tax work, armed with $9 million and a free research tool

Marble, a startup building artificial intelligence agents for tax professionals, has raised $9 million in seed funding as the accounting industry grapples with a deepening labor shortage and mounting [...]

AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings

OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics. Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers says GPT 5.6 Pro solved two problems he had spent [...]

Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers

Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for genuinely new mathematical ideas.<br /> The [...]

98% of market researchers use AI daily, but 4 in 10 say it makes errors — revealing a major trust problem

Market researchers have embraced artificial intelligence at a staggering pace, with 98% of professionals now incorporating AI tools into their work and 72% using them daily or more frequently, accordi [...]

How AI tax startup Blue J torched its entire business model for ChatGPT—and became a $300 million company

In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a r [...]

How Anthropic's Claude cuts SOC investigation time from 5 hours to 7 minutes

Integrating AI models directly into extended detection and response (XDR) platforms is delivering breakthrough improvements in SOC investigation speed and accuracy.In an exclusive interview with Ventu [...]

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront [...]

Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]

Agentic AI security breaches are coming: 7 ways to make sure it's not your firm

AI agents – task-specific models designed to operate autonomously or semi-autonomously given instructions — are being widely implemented across enterprises (up to 79% of all surveyed for a PwC rep [...]