Artificial Intelligence

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

Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped

A search for the most complex elliptic curves has taken mathematicians years. Claude beat the record in days

Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail—and who would decide when to use it