As the world watched Sunday night’s World Cup final between Spain and Argentina, mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a few understated lines on X that sent ripples through the mathematics community. Ja...

When Edward Kang was reviewing scientific papers for a school project three years ago, he came across a study by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who used retinal images to diagnose...

What happens when you teach a language model to mimic itself when it knows the right answer, then ask it to solve a task where it does not? It starts making one up. That is exactly what a new paper de...

Artificial intelligence saves us time and effort. It responds in seconds, writes an email, explains a complex problem. But we may be paying more for that relief than we realize. Scientists now describ...

A model trained on simple examples first memorizes everything. Then it stops making progress. It looks as if it is stuck. But after more training, something shifts. Accuracy on unseen data

After eight decades of failed attempts, one of geometry’s most famous unsolved mysteries has fallen. A chatbot solved it. OpenAI announced that its language model had disproved the Erdős unit distance...

An experienced chemist can look at a proposed synthesis route and quickly say it will not work. Not because they calculated anything. They can simply see it. This is exactly the kind of judgment resea...

Every large language model from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google pays the same price. The longer the input, the more work it requires—not twice as much, but four times as much. This has been true since tr...

The nonprofit ARC Prize Foundation has released a new artificial intelligence test called ARC-AGI-3. The results are devastating for AI: the world’s most powerful models, including Gemini 3.1, GPT-5,...

Meta’s FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) team has released a model called TRIBE v2. The acronym stands for TRImodal Brain Encoder. It sounds technical, but the underlying principle is surprisingly simple...

Try to remember the last time you wondered how much space modern AI models take up. Probably never, right? But for companies running these systems, it’s a daily headache. And G

Remember the periodic table of elements from school? The chart that at first looked like a jumble of numbers and abbreviations, but actually concealed the perfect order of the entire material world? P...