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AI Is Cracking Maths' Hardest Problems. The People Who Devoted Their Lives to Them Are Not Celebrating.
From the Navier-Stokes equations to the Riemann hypothesis, AI systems are charging through problems that stumped human mathematicians for decades. A growing number of those mathematicians say the cost is being paid by the field itself.
OpenAI Is Asking Elite Mathematicians to Tell It What It Got Wrong
After a string of maths results that damaged its reputation, OpenAI has formed a panel of independent mathematicians to advise the industry on where AI and academic research should and should not mix.
Fields Medal Winners Say AI Labs Are Breaking How Mathematics Works
Twenty-five of the world's top mathematicians have signed an open letter saying the race between AI companies to crack famous unsolved problems is undermining how math actually works, and who gets credit for doing it.
25 Fields Medal Winners Have Signed a Letter Challenging OpenAI's Maths Claim
OpenAI says its AI solved a century-old maths problem. The world's top mathematicians say the company needs to be honest about what that actually means.
AI solves Fermat's Last Theorem and a string of famous maths problems in a remarkable 2026 stretch
From a 78-year-old geometry puzzle to a proof nobody managed in 358 years, AI models are cracking open problems that stymied the world's best mathematicians. Here is what happened, and why researchers are also urging caution.
A Second Mathematician Accuses OpenAI of 'Dishonesty' Over Its AI Math Breakthroughs
Andreas Thom says OpenAI never explained whether his ChatGPT conversations shaped the very result that built on his own research, and its answers were 'materially misleading.'
OpenAI Says AI Cracked a 200-Year-Old Maths Problem. Another Mathematician Says the Company Raced Ahead After Learning of His Work.
OpenAI claims its AI solved the Navier-Stokes equation, one of maths' greatest unsolved problems. But a rival mathematician alleges the company found out about his progress first and then tried to cut a co-author out of the credit.
An AI Just Solved a Hard Open Problem in Pure Mathematics. Mathematicians Are Shaken.
OpenAI's Astra model cracked a longstanding question in group theory this month. A working mathematician explains why that felt impossible just weeks ago.
Will AI replace mathematicians? Probably not yet, say experts
About 40 top mathematicians met at OpenAI's offices this month to talk about their profession's future. The mood was worried. The evidence, though, tells a more complicated story.
AI Cracked Ten Hard Maths Problems in One Summer. Now Mathematicians Are Fighting Back.
OpenAI's models solved open problems that stumped humans for decades. Terence Tao says mathematicians have until the end of 2025 to decide who controls their field's future.
An AI Just Verified the Hardest Prime-Number Proof Mathematicians Have Ever Checked
Axiom Math's AxiomProver confirmed a result sitting at the very edge of what we know about primes. The real prize is what this means for the safety of AI-written code.
OpenAI's AI Solved 10 Hard Maths Problems. Now Mathematicians Are Asking What Their Jobs Are Worth.
A new OpenAI model cracked decade-old maths puzzles that stumped human researchers for years. The credit dispute around one of them is a warning about how AI labs talk about the people whose work they build on.
Ultra-fast AI proof checking: what a new maths result means for verifying huge data
Researchers have found a way to check approximate facts about enormous datasets using only a tiny sliver of the data, twice over. Here is why that matters.