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β€˜Breathtaking,’ β€˜Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release

9 October 2026 at 16:28
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day β€” dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

Β© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

Experts say the cataclysmic upheaval to the field will affect students the most, especially graduate students on the cusp of becoming a part of this intellectual community.

What Are the Remaining Millennium Prize Problems?

9 October 2026 at 08:12
OpenAI’s trove of new math results doesn’t fully solve any of these highly prestigious open questions, but it seems to make progress on some.

Β© GΓΆttingen Library, Clay Mathematics Institute

A page from an 1859 manuscript in which Berhard Reimann formulated his famous hypothesis, one of the remaining Millennium Prize problems.
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