Are Ram trucks meant to be sold mostly to accountants and math students? Why in the world do they have math formulas under their center consoles?

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

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

PCWorld highlights that remote work, despite productivity benefits, creates a significant social isolation problem that no productivity app can solve. A study of over 588,000 respondents found solo ...

This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...

“We do not stand for mean girls at this company,” Alex Cooper declared. It was February 2025, and the Call Her Daddy podcaster had convened the staff of her Gen Z media empire, Unwell, to announce the ...

This essay is featured in our Summer 2026 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan Vaes, upon receiving the prestigious Francqui Prize for young scientists from the ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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 ...

A recent announcement that an artificial intelligence model succeeded in solving a decades-old mathematical problem that had eluded generations of accomplished mathematicians was widely portrayed as ...

It started almost by accident. At my startup Dwelly, I constantly push the limits of what AI tools can actually do. One day I just typed into a chat: “Can you prove P ≠ NP?”—referring to the problem ...