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Investigators have spent days analyzing notes from people claiming to be Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers, including one that demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin for her release.

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The mathematical reasoning performed by LLMs is fundamentally different from the rule-based symbolic methods in traditional formal reasoning.

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