A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence.

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

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 ...

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

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

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

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

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

OpenAI had generated plenty of buzz by coming up with a breakthrough for an 80-year-old Erdős problem, but Anthropic now says that ...

The AI-led successes in math could also spur human mathematicians to new levels of achievement. Days after OpenAI announced that one of ...

Google DeepMind said AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős problems using Lean-verified proofs. The claim has sharpened ...