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An NYU math professor claims the AI behemoth rushed to solve the problem after discovering his progress.

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field ...

OpenAI wanted to see if its agents could solve a long unsettled math problem. After gobbling billions of tokens, it found a ...

As the leading AI labs battle for math supremacy, OpenAI spent millions of dollars and cracked the Navier-Stokes problem.

The company’s announcement has been dogged by questions about whether it improperly used work from another research team or ...

As companies entrust AI systems with increasingly valuable intellectual property, the policies governing model training, ...

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In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...