AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

Claude Fabel 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture over the weekend, landing days after the capabilities of China's Kimi AI became the biggest force moving bitcoin markets.

Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny ...

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The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

Frontier artificial intelligence models are challenging some longstanding beliefs about how to make organizations secure. At Visa, it’s forcing a complete rethink of cyber resilience. The payments ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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 ...

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 ...