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 ...
In a new perspective paper, Qin Huang of Arizona State University and colleagues propose that the worst damage from extreme ...
As we scour and scorch the Earth for deeper wells of energy, investors and government agencies are pouring billions into ...
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He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to write the underlying code.
“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...
The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.
It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...
Fault-tolerant quantum simulation just got 250 times cheaper to run. QuEra Computing and Los Alamos published an architecture ...
UPDATE: Jun. 4, 2026, 3:38 p.m. EDT — This article has been updated with a statement from Reddit. In recent years, brands and spammers alike have been using Reddit to manipulate AI chatbots by ...
Anthea Levi is a registered dietitian (RD) and reporter with more than 6 years of experience writing for major health outlets including Health magazine, BuzzFeed, Eat This, Not That!, and Livestrong.