ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

AI is speeding up coding, but production is still hitting bottlenecks—a paradox that requires intelligent solutions.

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 ...

A Palestinian boy sits at the site of an overnight Israeli military strike on structures and tents housing displaced families, killing ten Palestinians, in Gaza City, Thursday. Credit: AFP/OMAR ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

“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 ...

Problem solving is the mental process of analyzing a situation, learning what options are available, and then choosing the alternative that will result in the desired outcome or some other selected ...

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the list in 2000. Mathematicians ...

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 ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

In the Resident Evil 4 remake's Lake area, there is an optional puzzle called the Stone Pedestal. It requires players to insert three pieces of hexagon-shaped key pieces to solve it. The hexagon ...