Luana Lopes Lara is now known as an “MIT math nerd” who co-founded prediction market Kalshi and became the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire, but her story began far from the tech field, in ...

A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has gone viral for awkwardly interrupting a math lecture to protest the so-called “ongoing genocide of Gaza.” The clip, viewed more than 18 ...

MIT researchers have developed a probabilistic framework that could fundamentally alter the economics of AI code generation, potentially challenging the assumption that bigger models automatically ...

Some viral math puzzles come from unexpected sources, like elementary school classrooms. This problem was intended for more advanced students, and it's been stumping people for at least 145 years. The ...