In revisiting past hard problems, it is also important to recount successes that helped us bolster our defense. Successes ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

A superconducting quantum computer is part of a network that is mining an experimental cryptocurrency called Quip, and it is able to do it faster and with better energy efficiency than conventional ma ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...

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In a series of experiments, the fuzzy pollinators figured out how to use a ball as a tool to access a sugary treat. The study ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

Scientists revisited the Antikythera Mechanism after a YouTuber’s experiment—and may have finally solved the mystery of the ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...