Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OpenAI’s solution exploits an external force to break the Navier-Stokes equations, which are supposed to describe how fluids, such ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Systemization thinking, or systems thinking, is the habit of seeing things as systems instead of isolated events. A normal thinker looks at slow customer support, for example, and says, “Let’s reply ...

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Evangelists say AI saves time and increases productivity. Doomsayers argue AI will destroy humanity. While the truth may be somewhere in between, lawmakers and businesses are figuring out how to put ...

When OpenAI announced its AI had solved one of the world's toughest math problems earlier this month, its tone was celebratory: "A major goal of our work is to empower scientists to advance research ...

In a world full of smart plugs, smart calendars, and smart home assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google, I sometimes think we’ve lost the whimsy of a little square box found in millions of homes ...

Last week, OpenAI shared a proposed solution to the “Navier-Stokes equation” — one of the seven renowned Millenium Prize Problems chosen by the Clay Mathematics Institute that have stumped ...

In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress. By Steven ...

On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, ...