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

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 open Erdős problems and proved 44 OEIS conjectures using AI-driven formal ...

Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos: Jared C. Tilton / Getty Images Brian Campbell isn’t offended by the question, but he knows it’s coming: What’s it like to compete as the shortest ...

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 ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

Google Chrome gives you many options for personalizing your Web browsing experience, such as productivity extensions and offline Gmail support. One customization feature it lacks, though, is a custom ...

Whenever someone sends me a question about how to fix their Wi-Fi, I wince. It’s not that I dislike helping people with their router problems. In fact, there are few geeky endeavors I find more ...