Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...
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The Leiden Declaration: Mathematics, AI, and Making Our Values Explicit

When the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics went live on 2 June 2026, things moved quickly. The ...
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A $1 million prize was offered for this math problem - and everyone failed

The transcript explores Goldbach’s conjecture, the simple-looking claim that every even number greater than 2 can be written ...
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AI-era researchers ask whether math is obsolete

Google and OpenAI have solved decades-old problems — but the scientific community is beginning to discuss whether limits should be placed on the technology ...
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Why the famous Collatz conjecture remains a difficult math challenge

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines why the Collatz Conjecture is still a complex mathematical mystery. Trump warns Republicans after Supreme Court mail-in ballot smackdown Coffee linked to significant ...
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GUEST ROOM | Cornell, Help Send Alex Bores ’13 to Congress

Eric Yachbes '27 urges his peers to vote for Alex Bores '13 in New York's 12th Congressional District Election for more AI ...
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AI cracked an Erdős math problem. Now experts want guardrails

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 ...

Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after ...
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AI Math Breakthrough: OpenAI Disproves 80-Year Erdős Conjecture

An OpenAI model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture, and Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine more open problems days later. Together, these AI math breakthroughs mark a ...
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OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths

A dude named Lenin assures us that his five year plan will be completed in 4 years and that progress is inevitable. Just tell me how many hundreds of thousands you ...
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OpenAI AI Finds Counterexample To Decades-Old Math Theory

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely ...
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OpenAI Model Cracks 80-Year Erdős Conjecture, Verified by Its Harshest Previous Critic

OpenAI announced on May 20, 2026, that an internal general-purpose reasoning model had produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős's 1946 unit distance conjecture — a result in discrete geometry that had ...