OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made ...

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Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel ...

OpenAI announced this week that one of its general-purpose reasoning models made a breakthrough that has grabbed the ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

Solve the math puzzle from our June 2026 issue, where an ant navigates the surface of various objects to find the shortest ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by mathematicians working for the tech firm Open AI using a single prompt from an AI chatbot. The company has not revealed all the precise details ...

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...

Experts in the field are opening themselves up to partnering with AI. Thomas Bloom said it can help fully explore the ...