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

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Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

Now that AI can do a lot of the work of junior programmers, Silicon Valley employers want engineers who can confidently direct it. For one experienced engineer, that shift was an opening.

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Does the U.S. government have enough ammunition for all its wars and potential wars? Ask two different Pentagon officials and get two different answers. The lady doth protest too much. Warning lights ...

Epoch AI’s FrontierMath benchmark, a 350-problem test designed to push AI systems to their mathematical limits, is undergoing a significant correction after an internal review flagged errors in ...

Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...