OpenAI said Tuesday that it has solved one of math’s most difficult problems, marking a seminal moment for the company. But the news has been plagued by controversy over how OpenAI reached its ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The big drama in AI land today is decidedly nerdy stuff. But the hubbub highlights a concern everyone should care about: ...

OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics—a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior of fluids like water and air. The ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. On the morning of Tuesday, ...

It took years, an international consortium and a small army of volunteer proofreaders. That effort led to the first full map of every neuron and synapse in an animal brain—139,000 neurons, 50 million ...

On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...

As the Boston murder case of Swedish nanny Karina Holmer reaches 30 years without resolution, law enforcement across the region is solving or working on other cold cases. Here are some of those ...

In the 126 years since David Hilbert presented his famous 23 problems, mathematicians have made tremendous advancements. Sean McCabe for Simons Foundation; Portrait of David Hilbert by L. Reidemeister ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...