The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

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Interfold launches CRISP, a coercion-resistant voting protocol using FHE, zero-knowledge proofs, and distributed threshold ...

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Vietnam's top mathematics institute warned that students leaning too heavily on AI to solve problems risk an "intellectual decline," with both researchers and officials raising alarm about how much of ...

The poor results of a national science test are raising alarm bells. Experts say the problems run far deeper, are more urgent ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...