9+ hour, 19+ min ago   (962+ words) AI models are increasingly solving mathematical problems that have occupied human researchers for decades. What does this mean for mathematics? Fields Medallist Alessio Figalli reflects on the implications and, together with 24 other leading mathematicians, warns of emerging pitfalls in the…...

13+ hour, 58+ min ago   (266+ words) OpenAI says an internal model more capable than GPT-6 Astra produced a Lean-checked proof that Navier-Stokes can blow up in finite time. We reported September 12 that OpenAI was circling the Millennium Prizes with a new internal model. The World, The…...

8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (840+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week. In May 2000, to inspire mathematicians and…...

13+ hour, 49+ min ago   (965+ words) The growing race among AI labs to solve some of mathematics’ most famous problems is now facing pushback from the field’s most prominent researchers. Twenty-five mathematicians who have received the Fields Medal, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1426+ words) This document is written so that any undergraduate mathematics student can follow every step by hand, with a calculator, and verify every claim independently. No step is skipped. Every symbol is defined before it is used. Every "proven" claim below…...

22+ hour, 42+ min ago   (234+ words) Twenty-five Fields Medalists, including Princeton's June Huh, issued a joint letter warning that AI-driven math problem-solving, exemplified by OpenAI's rapid solution of a Millennium Prize problem, could undermine conceptual understanding and human collaboration, posing long-term risks to intellectual activity. They…...

10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (151+ words) TL:DR // Key Insights: 🧠💡©️➡️♾️📦💸⬇️ ➜ 🏆≠🔐✅ ➜ 🏆=🔎❓＋🫥🧠＋🆕🗣️ ➜ 🚫🤖📚 AI is rapidly commoditising codified knowledge, expertise and even intellectual property, so competitive advantage shifts away from owning answers toward the uniquely human capacity to discover the questions, tacit knowledge and new conceptual language that do…...

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (251+ words) South African outlet Daily Maverick reported that on September 8, OpenAI claimed to have solved one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems — the Navier–Stokes problem. According to the outlet, the company’s unreleased model spent 88 hours on it, but…...

18+ hour, 4+ min ago   (414+ words) Claude turns a 350-year-old, 129-page proof into 13 million lines of Lean code Anthropic has used its Claude artificial intelligence system to produce a fully computer-checked version of a famous, centuries-old mathematical proof. The proof addresses Fermat's Last Theorem, a hypothesis…...

17+ hour, 57+ min ago   (474+ words) Millions of people playing their daily Wordle games will be eager to hear about this new research. Using information theory, the team of researchers from Binghamton University and State University of New York has developed a method to solve the…...