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There are no known examples so far, but mathematicians are hopeful. Mathematicians have revealed a new category of “digitally delicate” prime numbers. These infinitely long primes turn back to ...

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George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof system scored at a silver-medal level when tested against the 2024 International Mathematical ...

Chinese team makes record-breaking advances on ‘kissing number’ using a reinforcement learning system called PackingStar.

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Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before parting ways with the organisation, has since become one of its most vocal critics.

OpenAI has hired two mathematicians — Ernest Ryu of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University — to strengthen its AI-for-science team and improve its models ...

Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better ...