ResearchBuzz: FirehoseNature: AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished. “An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco, California, has not revealed the precise details of how it did this, or the name of the AI system. However, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/nature-ai-cracks-80-year-old-mathematics-challenge-researchers-are-astonished/
Greg Spradlin@researchbuzz_firehose
The article is a stub that points to https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01651-0 . After a teaser, one encounters a paywall. But the teaser describes how OpenAI isn’t being fully transparent about what their system did.
The article is a stub that points to https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01651-0 . After a teaser, one encounters a paywall. But the teaser describes how OpenAI isn’t being fully transparent about what their system did.
