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An Anthropic AI model, Claude Fable 5, helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, a famous open problem in mathematics dating to 1939. The model produced a concrete counterexample that ...

The Toronto Blue Jays are probably going to end up buying before the MLB trade deadline. The American League is weak, and coming off a season in which they played until Game 7 of the World Series, the ...

The Trusts Arena in Henderson became a showcase of extraordinary young talent on Sunday as more than 250 of New Zealand and Australia's brightest young math minds gathered for the SIP Abacus ANZ ...

A young mathematician teamed up with a new AI model to tackle one of the hardest open problems in mathematics, and the result is causing a stir among mathematicians and AI researchers on X. Levent ...

A long-standing mathematical conundrum has been solved by ChatGPT in a few hours, with only a few simple prompts. The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is a 30-year-old question in graph theory, but a ...

The Jays enter the weekend near the bottom of the franchise record books. Instead of having what was supposed to be an off day on Thursday, the Toronto Blue Jays played a make-up game with the Chicago ...

On a sweltering morning in early July, Thomas Andrade, the co-owner of Everett Auto Parts in Massachusetts, supervises as a team of workers carefully straps two Chevy Volt hybrid batteries to a pallet ...

The average American family has about $268,300 in individual retirement accounts. Gregory Baszucki’s holds at least $68 million—and possibly a whole lot more. Baszucki, 61 years old, is one of ...

A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet. The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, ...