"Mathematics is not a game of chess," one Fields Medal winner told CNET. Mathematicians worry AI companies are just trying to win. Artificial intelligence has profoundly shaken up tech, education, ...

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AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED. As mathematicians reel from the way AI is automating their ...

OpenAI’s trove of new math results doesn’t fully solve any of these highly prestigious open questions, but it seems to make progress on some. A page from an 1859 manuscript in which Bernhard Riemann ...

Granted, ‘Reacher Method’ is my term for it—but science says it works. There’s a point in Lee Child’s book Make Me (the 20th in his Jack Reacher series, for those keeping score) where Reacher is ...

Actually, no. Neuroscience shows you tend to be at your most creative when you’re not trying to be creative. Actually, you’re at your most creative when you’re not trying to do anything at all.

OpenAI has posted hundreds of solutions and progress toward 372 major math problems in a release of 722 manuscripts on GitHub, the company announced. The breakthroughs from an unreleased ChatGPT ...

After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he sympathizes with researchers struggling to make sense of it all. But he has no ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

TUESDAY OCTOBER 6th 2026 may go down as one of the most consequential days in the history of mathematics. That was when OpenAI, an American artificial-intelligence firm, announced that its AI agents, ...

Solutions to ‘hundreds’ of open questions are said to be included in a batch of manuscripts released by OpenAI. Solutions to ‘hundreds’ of open questions are said to be included in a batch of ...

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research. By Kenneth Chang and Siobhan Roberts ...