For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...

A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence.

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning ...

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

OpenAI had generated plenty of buzz by coming up with a breakthrough for an 80-year-old Erdős problem, but Anthropic now says that ...

Only a few months ago, the question felt mostly philosophical: if artificial intelligence can help solve open math problems, ...

OpenAI has said that one of its unreleased AI reasoning models has solved a long-standing mathematics problem first proposed ...

A general-purpose reasoning model, not a math-trained system, produced a new family of point configurations that broke Paul ...

OpenAI has achieved a remarkable milestone by solving the “unit distance problem,” a mathematical conjecture that has challenged researchers for over 80 years. This problem, originally posed by ...

Google DeepMind said AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős problems using Lean-verified proofs. The claim has sharpened ...