A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence. OpenAI says one of its AI models has solved the "unit distance problem," a ...

A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

Google DeepMind said AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős problems using Lean-verified proofs. The claim has sharpened debate over hallucinations in AI maths and what counts as real progress ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning ...

A general-purpose reasoning model, not a math-trained system, produced a new family of point configurations that broke Paul ...

The AI-assisted math results were first coming in a trickle, but they seem to be threatening to turn into a deluge. OpenAI ...

OpenAI has said that one of its unreleased AI reasoning models has solved a long-standing mathematics problem first proposed by Paul Erdos in 1946.

OpenAI says an internal model autonomously cracked an 80-year-old math problem, raising new questions about AI's research ...

As AI keeps making new breakthroughs in mathematics, humans might still have a way to stay relevant. Elon Musk thinks the answer ...