Researchers have launched DefElement, an open online encyclopedia that standardises finite element definitions and ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

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 ...

We all have minor gripes that occur in everyday life that don’t amount to much but are memorable due to their frequent occurrence. Among these is the exasperating situation where you pull up to the ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. Illustration: Emil Lendof/WSJ, Getty Images A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its ...

When identical charges repel each other but are confined to the surface of a sphere, they seek the arrangement with the lowest possible energy. The idea is simple, but the problem gets harder to solve ...

Actually, no. Neuroscience shows you tend to be at your most creative when you’re not trying to be creative. Actually, you’re at your most creative when you’re not trying to do anything at all.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 6th 2026 may go down as one of the most consequential days in the history of mathematics. That was when OpenAI, an American artificial-intelligence firm, announced that its AI agents, ...

AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED. As mathematicians reel from the way AI is automating their ...

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. In August, OpenAI ...

Just weeks after claiming to have solved a 90-year-old Millennium Prize Problem that sparked outrage across the global mathematical community, OpenAI has published hundreds of new mathematical results ...