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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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General Motors’ stock bobbed up and down all day after the auto maker turned in better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and raised its full-year outlook.

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Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Caen Cuto / Getty, Kenneth Richmond, Emilee Chin / Getty Images Several preseason picks for the MLB postseason have disappointed over the first month, ...

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Not everyone is sold on Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson becoming an elite fighter in the UFC’s heavyweight division. Top heavyweight MMA prospect Gable Steveson could potentially be on his way to ...