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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Grok 4.5 constructed a counterexample proving hypercontractivity fails on the 4-sphere, closing a decades-old gap in ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Math classrooms shifted over time to the discovery model. Not suddenly, and not without good intentions. There was a ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...