App-blocking devices like Bloom and Brick promise to improve focus and decrease compulsive phone checks by making social media harder to access.

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

UC Berkeley math professor Nikhil Srivastava met with researchers on a mission to create a new way of assessing the mathematical capabilities of AI.

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

The Trump administration may not detain thousands of immigrants in Minnesota who were admitted into the country but have not yet received lawful permanent resident status, a federal judge ruled.

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Lowering the speed limit on River Road won't accomplish a thing. The problem is not the people obeying the 40 mph speed limit. The problem is the people doing 50-55 mph. Will this slow them down?

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...