TUESDAY OCTOBER 6th 2026 may go down as one of the most consequential days in the history of mathematics. That was when OpenAI, an American artificial-intelligence firm, announced that its AI agents, ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

All this complicated math and no one was left sobbing at the kitchen table. This week, OpenAI dumped solutions to 372 of the world’s previously unsolved problems across number theory, algebraic ...

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research. By Kenneth Chang and Siobhan Roberts ...