Artificial Intelligence

In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an internal test

Can a six-dimensional sphere be described using imaginary numbers? For decades, experts puzzled over this question. Now an AI has apparently answered it

With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards

The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super intelligence”

In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of one “inverse Galois problem”

OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

From orbital weapons to AI risks and weaker emissions rules

The human brain uses about the same amount of wattage as a lightbulb

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are using AI—a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de force, but any real-world applications may be years away—if they ever arrive at all

Independent auditors are emerging as a key part of plans to rein in frontier AI. But the systems are evolving faster than the methods used to evaluate them

The surprising real-world applications of high-dimensional sphere packing and the 48-year-old barrier that OpenAI just broke