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Caltech students organized a ‘Mathathon’ sponsored by Anthropic and OpenAI. Then came the backlash

Caltech students organized a ‘Mathathon’ sponsored by Anthropic and OpenAI. Then came the backlash
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An aerial view of the Caltech campus “40 hours, $2M+ AI credits, solve an open problem.” So read the splashy announcement for the “Mathathon” at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Dozens of teams would work to solve vexing math problems with the help of artificial intelligence as...

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