In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...
Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...
Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...
AI math proof verification reached a new frontier as DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős research problems with Lean-verified proofs, some unsolved for 56 years. The May 2026 Science Ne ...
Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.
In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...
OpenAI says an internal model autonomously cracked an 80-year-old math problem, raising new questions about AI's research ...