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David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

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Your photos are your own. Until they're not. Earlier this year, people began using Grok, X's generative AI chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes of women and children. Hosts Ben and ...