An AI solution to an 80‑year‑old problem has shocked mathematicians

Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made ...
Crypto Briefing

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 Erdős problems and proves 44 sequence conjectures

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 open Erdős problems and proved 44 OEIS conjectures using AI-driven formal ...
Time

8 Signs You’re the Problem in Your Arguments

We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...
Wall Street Journal

The Thorium Solution to the Iran Nuclear Problem

The U.S. blockade of Iran continues amid an uncertain round of peace negotiations, while Congress wrestles with the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown and the looming lapse of a key ...
Scientific American

Is AI on the precipice of revolutionizing math? It depends

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...
Wired

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...
New Scientist

Amateur mathematicians solve long-standing maths problems with AI

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...
CNN

The solution to America’s affordability problem might be broken, too

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...
Newsweek

Nick Saban Proposes a Solution to College Football’s Problems

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Amid the discussion on the college football landscape, Nick Saban let ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...
CNN

America is in a literacy crisis. Is AI the solution or part of the problem?

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...