UCLA professor and mathematician Terence Tao has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.

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Artificial intelligence programs can spot patterns in electrocardiograms that humans miss. Now, one program is going to be widely available — for free — to doctors. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has been ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason.