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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Harmonic AI, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Robinhood Markets Inc. Chief Executive Vlad Tenev, has raised $100 million in funding to tackle a problem that has sometimes confounded AI ...

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programs reaching gold-level scores for the first time. Neither model scored full ...

AI-savvy graduates aren’t just future-proofing their careers—they’re landing some of the highest starting salaries in tech ...

AI learning tools will be introduced to undergraduate physics and math courses this fall. The Artificial Intelligence and Math Skills program, a two-year project aiming to decrease learning ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work—especially in technical and knowledge-intensive fields—by automating routine tasks and increasing the value of quantitative reasoning and systems ...