There’s a $1-million prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem ...

A million-dollar math mystery may someday be resolved in a physics lab. A new study brings this vision one step closer.

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample ...

A research version of Claude boosted the proven share of Riemann zeta function zeros on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2% in just 1.5 days.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on July 22. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/Reuters) Secretary of State Marco Rubio is either the ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

Used cars—and their lower prices—are becoming more attractive amid high interest rates, high new-car prices, and market turmoil due to uncertainty regarding tariffs on new cars and car parts. At the ...

The Jacobian conjecture is a long-standing open problem in algebraic geometry that's bedeviled highly accomplished mathematicians for almost 90 years. It was included in "Smale's problems," a list of ...

On July 16, representatives of 65 nations attended a ministerial summit convened by the State Department to address the alleged threat from far-left extremist groups. The meeting was the latest gambit ...