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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes. Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...