OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

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“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

Celebrating its 340th birthday this year, the gravitational constant is the oldest fundamental constant in physics. "Big G" as it is affectionately known, was first placed at the heart of Newton's law ...

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. The new technology hinges on a “quasi-random ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Bruce M. Beehler is a naturalist and author whose most recent book is “Flight of the Godwit: Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations.” When I was 10, I learned the cost of free-roaming dogs the hard way.

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

The true culprit was identified soon after this HBO documentary came out. A new episode shows that the series was less about who did the killings than about the agony of uncertainty. By Mike Hale At ...