Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

U.S.-based perovskite/silicon solar module maker Tandem PV has achieved a conversion efficiency of 30.4% from a 100 cm² demonstration module in internal testing. The module features the company’s ...

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 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

The government has finalised the Grade 6 module, which will commence from 2027, after the syllabus was evaluated for quality and content by an expert panel, Deputy Education Minister Madura ...

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Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

A Polish mathematician who once described artificial intelligence as “a very advanced calculator” has been left stunned after an AI model managed to solve a research-level mathematics problem he spent ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Claude Sonnet 2.6 is out now. Here's what you need to know. Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic has just released its latest Large Language Model (LLM), Claude Sonnett 4.6. The ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...