Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...
A former NFL player named John Urschel decided to do some light reading this week, and for him that meant leafing through the latest math papers from OpenAI about topics such as the Riemann hypothesis ...
Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our feature here. But with the dust still far from settled, a different controversy is emerging: Did OpenAI even solve ...
China insists it has made extraordinary progress against poverty, but this episode examines evidence of a homelessness problem that is increasingly difficult to ignore. It looks at China's decision to ...
The mathematics community is still in shock. On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced that an artificial intelligence model may have solved one of the most significant problems in the field, the ...
Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline had become a critical alternative export route as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed. Drone attacks damaged pumping infrastructure and forced Saudi ...
The Navier-Stokes problem concerns equations of fluid motion, illustrated here as dye moving in liquid. Kterletska via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 The Navier-Stokes problem, a famous theoretical ...
You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Math is hard. And, apparently, expensive. On Tuesday, OpenAI said its agents had solved the Navier-Stokes equations, a ...
OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the ...
NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...
In a year of unthinkable math progress, as increasingly powerful AI systems have cracked conjectures that had long stumped humans, OpenAI published a breakthrough on Tuesday that represents the most ...
OpenAI announced today that it had solved the problem, one of seven “Millennium Problems” seen as among the most important in higher mathematics. By Cade Metz On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that its ...