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This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Strategic angle: Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: Deaths and Health Care Issues in ICE Detention Centers Under the Second Trump Administration

Strategic angle: An overview of deaths in ICE custody and health care issues during the Trump administration.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: STAT+: Eli Lilly and the ‘societal obligation’ of GLP-1s

Strategic angle: Eli Lilly discusses the 'societal obligation' of GLP-1s amidst other biotech news.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: Merck to Acquire Terns Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 Billion

Strategic angle: The acquisition aims to enhance Merck's portfolio with a promising leukemia treatment.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: How to make emergency rooms safer for people with dementia

Strategic angle: A federal vaccine adviser departs ACIP, adults turn to AI chatbots for health info, and radiologists sift through deepfake X-rays.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Tech

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Strategic angle: Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles a

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Tech

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

Strategic angle: AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Sports

Briefing: Woods targets Masters after return to action in TGL

Strategic angle: Tiger Woods says he is "trying to play" at next month's Masters after returning to action for the first time in more than a year in the TGL.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Politics

Briefing: CERN's most delicate road trip: Scientists take antimatter out of the lab for the first time

Strategic angle: Housed in a high-tech, super-cooled container, the fragile particles survived a short truck journey without touching normal matter, which would have made them vanish in a flash of energy.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: Trump’s $1B payoff to stop offshore wind is even stranger than it sounds

Strategic angle: The government is paying TotalEnergies to halt a wind farm it isn’t building, in exchange for fossil fuel investments it’s already making.

Editorial Staff Mar 25