In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

AI math tools are solving problems that stumped humans for decades. A Northeastern mathematician explains why people still ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

This staggering quantity of mathematical progress builds on AI developments that have unsettled the research community.

The field of mathematics was already riled up about AI. Last month, OpenAI said it solved the Navier-Stokes Equation, one of the Millennium Problems. OpenAI said it wouldn’t claim the money, but that ...

AI is solving the world’s hardest math problems, leaving mathematicians split between unprecedented breakthroughs and professional existential dread.

🃏 AI solves famous math problem. Bigger breakthroughs to come? When you consider that the US productivity growth — the main, long-term driver of rising living standards — has been in a 50-year funk, ...

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

The company’s announcement has been dogged by questions about whether it improperly used work from another research team or sought to deny credit — allegations OpenAI denies.

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems. Each ...