On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had produced a counterexample to the unit distance problem, a conjecture posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking the first historically signifi…
A 2026 investigation by Quanta Magazine science journalist John Horgan finds that large reasoning models (LRMs) from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others exhibit both remarkable successes—such as solvi…
The human genome's complexity, with only 2% consisting of genes and the rest involved in intricate regulation, may resist full understanding by artificial intelligence. Genomic AI models like Evo 2 an…
Mathematician Terry Tao, a child prodigy who won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad at age 13 and earned his Ph.D. from Princeton by 21, has become an evangelist for using artificial inte…
Alexander Grothendieck revolutionized 20th-century mathematics by reorienting the field toward abstract relationships between objects rather than the objects themselves, most notably in algebraic geom…