Flush with cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are vying to hire the same tiny pool of genius graduates.

The announcement sent waves through social media and the inner circles of mathematics, as the latest in a series of AI-driven ...

Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the ...

In 2020, the University of California regents voted unanimously to phase out the SAT and ACT as admission requirements. Over 3,000 faculty members are asking for it to come back.

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

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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 ...

In July 2020, 4chan’s video-game discussion board looked much like the rest of the notorious online forum. There were elaborate, libidinal fantasies involving “whores” and “dragon cum,” and comments ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...