5+ hour, 50+ min ago   (997+ words) Caiman Moreno-Earle, a math major at Caltech, was wary after watching AI companies rapidly solve mathematical theorems that had stumped his professors for years. "It got kind of demoralizing," he told Business Insider. So the 19-year-old sophomore decided to bring…...

17+ hour, 4+ min ago   (840+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week. In May 2000, to inspire mathematicians and…...

20+ hour, 27+ min ago   (251+ words) South African outlet Daily Maverick reported that on September 8, OpenAI claimed to have solved one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems — the Navier–Stokes problem. According to the outlet, the company’s unreleased model spent 88 hours on it, but…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (414+ words) Claude turns a 350-year-old, 129-page proof into 13 million lines of Lean code Anthropic has used its Claude artificial intelligence system to produce a fully computer-checked version of a famous, centuries-old mathematical proof. The proof addresses Fermat's Last Theorem, a hypothesis…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1038+ words) Eighty-eight hours. Around ten thousand AI agents. A Millennium Prize Problem that mathematicians have worked on …...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (416+ words) 10,000 AI agents found a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which mathematicians have worked on for decades. The problem is one of six Millennium Problems each carrying a prize of $1 million. If the result is confirmed, it is the first time…...

1+ day, 10+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 23+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 2+ min ago   (342+ words) An obscure adjunct, working at a Subway while publishing nothing, solved a centuries-old problem that had defeated the world's elite mathematicians. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit By the time he submitted, he had published no…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (31+ words) There’s a version of this story where OpenAI gets a victory lap. An AI system cracks one of the seven …...