These ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.
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Baidu's ERNIE 5 AI Model Rises Up the Rankings—A Math Wiz That Beats OpenAI's GPT 5.1

Baidu's ERNIE-5.0-0110 ranks #8 globally on LMArena, becoming the only Chinese model in the top 10 while outperforming ...
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Gov. Hochul calls for math instruction overhaul in State of State address

The New York governor also previewed several child care and education initiatives, including funding a free child care ...
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Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild

Hugo Marques explains how to navigate Java concurrency at scale, moving beyond simple frameworks to solve high-throughput IO ...
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Things Software Developers Think They Don’t Need to Care about, But Can Impact Their Job

Holly Cummins gave a keynote at Goto Copenhagen where she urged developers to care about overlooked issues that shape their ...
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Silicon Valley’s tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026

Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition…why Silicon Valley needs to read the room on AI skepticism…How Christian leaders are challenging the AI boom….Instacart ends ...