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11 May
Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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14 Oct
GPT-6 Astra autonomously solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics research problems, scoring 98% at under $3 per problem. Researchers initially marked several answers wrong, only to discover the AI had caught errors in the calculations of world-class physicists.

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8 Sept
OpenAI LLMs has resolved a roughly 90 years old mathematical problem

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6 Oct
For 31 years, mathematicians couldn’t finish this proof. The new paper says ChatGPT found most of the ideas and proofs behind a problem tied to efficient computer search and sampling, while the authors mostly worked to understand and explain it.

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14 Oct
4 Sept
Physicists With Early Access Say GPT-6 Astra Is Already 3/4 of the Way Toward a Quantum Theory of General Relativity, One of the Biggest Unsolved Problems in Modern Physics

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8 Sept
OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

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28 Apr
AI Discovers New Laws of Physics Within Dusty Plasma

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