This study from Suganthan reveals hidden fields in ChatGPT's network traffic that decide which sources get fetched, cited, or ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

I never need an excuse to talk about the great mathematician Terence Tao. So when the governor-general, Sam Mostyn, on Monday named Terence Tao a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2026 King’s ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

Late physicist turned issue of when to stop searching for a better place to eat into mathematical problem When it comes to exploring a new city, it can be tricky to know when to stop searching for a ...

This weekend’s Formula 1 race, the Canadian Grand Prix, is a unique one on this year’s schedule, at least as far as how you can watch from home. While Apple TV is the new streaming home of Formula 1 ...

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 problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...