A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. OpenAI is paying a price for its rushed deal with the Pentagon. On Saturday, Anthropic's Claude ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock has been confirmed by the Senate as the next deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command. The Senate approved Mahlock’s nomination Friday by voice vote. She was ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Before Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos won the Grammy for album of the year on Sunday—making it the first predominantly Spanish-language album to do so—the Puerto Rican superstar had already made ...

More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Lt. Col. Calischaran G. James was relieved as commanding officer of Okinawa-based Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 36 on Nov. 26, 2025. Marine Corps photo. On Nov. 26 1st Marine Aircraft Wing ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...