Physicists and AI model Claude 'collaborate' to prove a 10-year-old jamming conjecture

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...
Mathinar

What This Week's Heatwave Reminded Me About One of the Most Important Skills Our Children Can Learn

This week's UK heatwave caused school closures and disrupted learning, but it also reminded me of one of the most important ...
The Conversation

I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times. Find out your team’s chances

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is one of the most watched events of the international sports calendar, and fans from across the globe will be trying to predict how far their team will go. I’m a data ...
Gizmodo

An OpenAI Model ‘Disproved’ a Famous Math Conjecture. This Mathematician Couldn’t Leave It Alone

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...
NDTV

AI Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem That Stumped Experts For Decades

OpenAI's AI model solved the unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdos in 1946 The AI found a counterexample disproving Erdos's conjecture on unit-distance pairs The solution shows unit-distance pairs ...
Wall Street Journal

A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It.

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...
The Guardian

Don’t shoot for the moon: aiming for ‘above average’ is key to success, maths suggests

Model created by researchers shows better outcomes are often more likely when people are not too ambitious It is the end of an idiom for motivational speakers. Instead of shooting for the moon when ...
Forbes

Tesla ‘Model 2’ Takes Shape

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eWeek

OpenAI’s Model Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...
The Guardian

OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...