A former NFL player named John Urschel decided to do some light reading this week, and for him that meant leafing through the latest math papers from OpenAI about topics such as the Riemann hypothesis ...

Show producers: Samata Joshi, Dean Russell, Grace Tatter, and Paul Vaitkus. Mixer and sound designer: Emily Jankowski Get out your graphing calculators, because today's episode of Endless Thread is ...

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.

Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our feature here. But with the dust still far from settled, a different controversy is emerging: Did OpenAI even solve ...

China insists it has made extraordinary progress against poverty, but this episode examines evidence of a homelessness problem that is increasingly difficult to ignore. It looks at China's decision to ...

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline had become a critical alternative export route as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed. Drone attacks damaged pumping infrastructure and forced Saudi ...

When OpenAI cracked one of math’s six unsolved “million-dollar” problems, the academic world was stunned. The 90-year-old question, part of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s famous Millennium Prize ...

OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the ...

OpenAI says an internal artificial intelligence system has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem in about 88 hours, after deploying a system involving roughly ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

OpenAI announced today that it had solved the problem, one of seven “Millennium Problems” seen as among the most important in higher mathematics. By Cade Metz On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that its ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...