For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

OpenAI has said that Astra, a model it has not yet released publicly, produced solutions to ten long-open problems in ...

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In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

After cracking an unsolvable mathematics problem last year, AI is back to tackle geometry. Developed by Google DeepMind, a new algorithm, AlphaGeometry, can crush problems from past International ...

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...

This article is the first of a three-part series adapted from an essay written by Dr. Alex Berezow, which is now archived at Suzzallo Library's Special Collections at the University of Washington. In ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...