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Fields medalists denounce AI companies
...mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned. In just a few days, over 7,400 researchers...
The Navier-Stokes proof has blown up the math world
Earlier this week, mathematicians at OpenAI announced that 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction had found a “singularity” in the Navier-Stokes equations — resolving one of the six remaining...
Announcing “Transformation,” a dispatch about math and AI
...mathematical context: How important do mathematicians think the latest counterexample is? How novel is a connection that AI discovered between different branches of math? What are the potential consequences of...
What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?
Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The mathematical universe is boundless...
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
...in how mathematicians tackle difficult problems. This particular difficult problem deals with differential equations, which express relationships between changing quantities. They are arguably the single most important mathematical tool for...
Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?
In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the...
Does Computer Science Need Computers?
...just to solve math problems, but also for tasks like sorting items. From this perspective, the math underlying computation is central; computers themselves are relevant only because they open up...
‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance
For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups. One does not need a doctorate in mathematics to...
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
...in applied math. But I do think pure math will expire before applied math does, and maybe neither will. Maybe we’ll just keep going forever. What does it look like...