There’s a $1-million prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early August 2026 pushed the story into new territory. The company said its latest ...

A million-dollar math mystery may someday be resolved in a physics lab. A new study brings this vision one step closer.

A long-standing mathematical conundrum has been solved by ChatGPT in a few hours, with only a few simple prompts. The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is a 30-year-old question in graph theory, but a ...

A young mathematician teamed up with a new AI model to tackle one of the hardest open problems in mathematics, and the result is causing a stir among mathematicians and AI researchers on X. Levent ...

An Anthropic AI model, Claude Fable 5, helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, a famous open problem in mathematics dating to 1939. The model produced a concrete counterexample that ...

Disproving the Jacobian conjecture marks the latest high-profile win in a historic year for frontier AI models in theoretical mathematics. (Image created with AI) An Anthropic researcher just gave ...

The Trusts Arena in Henderson became a showcase of extraordinary young talent on Sunday as more than 250 of New Zealand and Australia's brightest young math minds gathered for the SIP Abacus ANZ ...

The Toronto Blue Jays are probably going to end up buying before the MLB trade deadline. The American League is weak, and coming off a season in which they played until Game 7 of the World Series, the ...

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