Artificial intelligence was beaten by humans in solving 10 complicated mathematical problems within the “First Proof” project. The project was ...

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Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

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When the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics went live on 2 June 2026, things moved quickly. The ...

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The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

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

You may have noticed the recent discussions about layoffs in Big Tech companies. Many people blame the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for this job insecurity. Recently, an IIT graduate ...

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 ...