Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

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Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our feature here. But with the dust still far from settled, a different controversy is emerging: Did OpenAI even solve ...

The mathematics community is still in shock. On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced that an artificial intelligence model may have solved one of the most significant problems in the field, the ...

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline had become a critical alternative export route as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed. Drone attacks damaged pumping infrastructure and forced Saudi ...

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first. By Kenneth Chang Over Labor Day weekend, Tristan Buckmaster, ...

OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the ...

OpenAI said 10,000 of its agents solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours. The company, which is behind ChatGPT, said it used a system of 10,000 "coordinating agents" powered by its ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...