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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 ...
Psychology Today

Why Does Math Make So Many of Us Anxious?

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...
AOL

Motorists fined 22,000 times for bus gate use

Motorists were caught out more than 22,000 times by a controversial bus gate in the last six months. The bus-only zone on Corporation Street, near Preston city centre, was installed in May 2024 - ...
Eagle-Tribune

Their View: More math, not less, will lead students to succeed

A group of middle-school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...
GameSpot

Baldur's Gate, Divinity Dev CEO Responds To Backlash Over Generative AI Comments

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity developer Larian has confirmed that it uses generative AI in its development processes, but not necessarily in the way ...
Polygon

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developer Larian Studios generated a ton of hype (and no shortage of revulsion) when it revealed its next big role-playing game, Divinity, at The Game Awards ...
Bloomberg L.P.

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’

Hi everyone. Today we’ve got a bonus issue of Game On featuring an interview about one of last week’s most exciting video-game announcements. Larian Studios has hit the big time. Until somewhat ...
PC Gamer

Larian defends itself as fans react to generative AI use: 'I'm not entirely sure we are the ideal target for the level of scorn'

RPG Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting' RPG Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says ...
WRAL

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
PC Gamer

Valve's decision not to sell the Steam Machine at a loss 'isn't stupid' but it is 'peculiar' says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing boss

We reported recently on Valve's indication that the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, not a console. Valve has since confirmed that it does not plan to sell the Steam Machine at a loss, which is ...
Yahoo

Bill Gates' Daughter Says They Were Not Allowed to Use His Last Name Until High School —Melinda Wanted Them Raised With 'Middle Class Values'

When your dad is Bill Gates, you'd think your last name would open every door. But Phoebe Gates didn't even use it until high school. And that wasn't an accident. In a recent episode of her podcast ...