AI (artificial intelligence) has proven to solve long-unsolved mathematical problems and now handles mundane tasks like ...

An AI assistant helped University of Colorado Boulder researchers solve a mathematical problem that had challenged their lab for a year and a half, though it made subtle errors along the way. The ...

Image caption: Illustration of how a particle's shape influences the flow patterns around it. In the following Q&A, Gupta discusses the research, how AI contributed to the discovery and the importance ...

Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the cost of everything else he valued. In ...

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 ...

Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: Be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the cost of everything else he valued. In ...

The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, has puzzled mathematicians for nearly two centuries. It asks whether the equations governing fluid ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

Image caption: Illustration of how a particle's shape influences the flow patterns around it. An AI assistant helped University of Colorado Boulder researchers solve a mathematical problem that had ...