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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 ...

Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, ...

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 ...

Last month, I interviewed mathematicians who were seeking a very peculiar set of dice. For no reason other than they found the problem fun, they had hunted for five dice that could be thrown to decide ...

Although climate change gets the headlines, we still have the old environmental challenges, such as preserving wildlife and reducing water pollution—the kind of concerns that kicked off Earth Day 1970 ...

OpenAI claims one of its AI models has found a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the toughest and most enduring puzzles in mathematics, sitting on the list of Millennium Prize Problems, ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's 15-year-olds ranked second globally in computational problem solving, a new Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) domain that measures how students use ...

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How will the Minnesota Timberwolves solve the usage puzzle? That's one of the more difficult questions looming over the team ahead of the season. With Anthony Edwards, LaMelo Ball, Jaden McDaniels, ...

The company says it has cracked the physics of fluids using artificial intelligence, solving one of the toughest puzzles in mathematics. For the first time, a truly major open problem in mathematics ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. On the morning of Tuesday, ...