2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1059+ words) In 2026, if you only read headlines, you would think mathematics had suddenly entered harvest season. By rough count, in just half a year, more than a dozen mathematical problems that had been open for decades were cleared out in a…...

58+ min ago   (366+ words) Top mathematicians urge responsible AI benchmarks to protect discovery and collaboration They said, "Solving problems is only a tool and proxy to achieve the fundamental goals of conceptual understanding and insight," adding, "There is a severe misalignment between the goals…...

6+ hour, 29+ min ago   (201+ words) AI appears to have opened math research to a cohorts that weren’t typically expected to contribute meaningfully to the field until recently. Two teenagers from Oak Park High School in California and a UCLA postdoc have just put their names…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (1027+ words) What do you do when ChatGPT starts talking nonsensical gibberish or hallucinating wildly? ​Usually, you start by shouting at it or hitting refresh. But Snickers thinks you should feed it a candy bar instead. ​Snickers recently launched Hungr.AI, calling…...

11+ hour, 20+ min ago   (369+ words) Joint statement led by Terence Tao urges urgent debate on AI-driven unsolved problem contests and their impact on mathematical research and education However, the mathematicians pointed out that corporate competition that treats solving unsolved problems as a benchmark for AI…...

19+ hour, 4+ min ago   (771+ words) You don’t need to know any math to understand why the Millennium Prize breakthrough matters. It’s proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress. Why should we care that AI is suddenly insanely good at math? It’s a question that I’ve…...

17+ hour, 23+ min ago   (36+ words) There’s a sentence I keep returning to, one I first read in a paper and then couldn’t stop thinking about: a word is known by the company it keeps. It sounds like …...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (801+ words) Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs threatened their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems. "We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (599+ words) Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have warned that the rush by AI companies to solve difficult mathematical problems could undermine the collaborative culture of the field. Their concerns centre on attribution, transparency and whether researchers can keep pace with labs that…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (530+ words) The debate over agentic mathematics has reached beyond mathematical proofs. A group of the world’s most decorated mathematicians is warning that the race to make AI solve difficult mathematics could damage the field it aims to advance. Twenty-five Fields Medalists…...