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The Verge’s Robert Hart on why new AI discoveries have left the math world 'shel

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20 Aug
Welcome to the AI crisis in math
REPORT · WHAT · The Verge Tech
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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GPT-6 Astra autonomously solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics research problems, scoring 98% at under $3 per problem.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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OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
11 Sept
Let me get this straight: Mathematics community responds to AI by threatening the participants, most of them are just students?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>On September 10, mathematicians published an open letter demanding the cancellation of the Caltech Mathathon, a student-run hackathon where 100

OPINION · WHERE · singularityOPEN STORY
12 Sept
Two mathematicians at the heart of recent controversies tell The Verge how AI giants’ ‘childish’ rivalries are upending the field. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Two mathematicians at the heart of recent controversies tell The Verge how AI giants’ ‘childish’ rivalries are upending the field. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OPINION · HOW · The VergeOPEN STORY
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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OPINION · WHO · OpenAIOPEN STORY
8 Sept
And now OpenAI is out with their big announcement. If you're hearing about "AI does a math breakthru!!1!!!" please read the resources in this thread.

And now OpenAI is out with their big announcement. If you're hearing about "AI does a math breakthru!!1!!!" please read the resources in this thread. Also, journalists, please, do

OPINION · WHAT · Emily M. BenderOPEN STORY
20 May
OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

REPORT · WHO · TechCrunch AIOPEN STORY
21 Sept
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

OPINION · WHAT · TechCrunchOPEN STORY
8 Sept
OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

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OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
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