OpenAI’s Astra generates machine‑checkable proofs for ten decades‑old math problems, showing how verified AI can cut ...

OpenAI Astra reportedly solved 10 long-standing math problems dating back to 1946. Mathematicians are now actively debating ...

OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.

Unbeknownst to them, the puzzle would help launch a profound branch of modern math about order among chaos and spark a ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might ...

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used as a collaborator in mathematical research rather than simply a computational tool. A young mathematician teamed up with a new AI model to tackle one ...

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 ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University (CYU) and University of Burgundy (uB), have analyzed drawings made by children and adults when solving ...

Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified. Visualizing these representations would enable us to better understand ...