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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

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The University of California will consider bringing back SAT and ACT requirements for first-year admissions. UC ended test ...

PIGEON FORGE — Array Theater has officially achieved STEM certification, recognizing the theater’s commitment to integrating ...

OpenAI's AI model solved the unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdos in 1946 The AI found a counterexample disproving Erdos's conjecture on unit-distance pairs The solution shows unit-distance pairs ...

AI math proof verification reached a new frontier as DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős research problems with Lean-verified proofs, some unsolved for 56 years. The May 2026 Science Ne ...

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