OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de force, but any real-world applications may be years away—if they ever arrive at all ...

Count everything. Counting stairs, flowers and toys can be a smart way to incorporate math into your child’s daily life. Break out the games. Play Go Fish or lock in to Candy Land or Chutes and ...

The University of California regents opened their first sustained public discussion Wednesday about whether to reinstate the SAT requirement in admissions, as math grades continue to slide, dueling ...

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which ...

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving ...

The S&P 500 is at risk as its largest sectors—Technology, Financials, Consumer Cyclical, and industrials—show pronounced weakness, representing 67% of index weight. Market leadership is narrowing, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today on Decoder, ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

One of the winners of this year’s Fields Medal is headed to OpenAI. Last Thursday, Jacob Tsimerman was one of four mathematicians awarded the prestigious honor, which is sometimes called the Nobel ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...