Learn how chain-of-thought and a guided meta-system boosted ChatGPT 5’s abstract thinking, so you can pick better tools for complex tasks.

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

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The animal kingdom is teeming with extraordinary examples of intelligence and problem-solving abilities that often go unnoticed or underappreciated. From the ingenious tool use of corvids to the ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Abstract: Knowledge transfer-based evolutionary optimization has garnered significant attention, such as in multitask evolutionary optimization (MTEO), which aims to solve complex problems by ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

We are moving from a world of institutional dependency to one of personal responsibility. The question is no longer, “What can we do for people?” but, “How can we equip people to do more for ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

What if the toughest problems humanity faces—those that stump our brightest minds and stretch the limits of human ingenuity—could be tackled by a single, purpose-built system? Enter Gemini Deep Think, ...