In 1960, three scientists published a paper in Science that calculated, with deliberate provocation, that the human population would become infinite on Friday, November 13, 2026. That date is now ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Researchers have introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized to solve advanced math problems. It is now available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — free for ...

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction, capturing the imaginations of storytellers and scientists alike. Recent breakthroughs in mathematical modeling might bring this fantastical ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...