WORKING OUT how to most efficiently pack a crate full of oranges may seem like a juvenile pursuit for professional mathematicians. And yet the sphere-packing problem, as this pastime is properly known ...

Google DeepMind has released the results of its Gemini-powered algorithm discovery AI, 'AlphaEvolve,' after one year of development. AlphaEvolve works by having Gemini generate candidate new code and ...

Mathematician Terence Tao compares the influence of AI and formalization on mathematical practice with the impact of the automobile on urban development. The analogy could apply just as well to other ...

Crowds don’t usually gather around mathematicians — but this story is different. From teaching himself to read at age two to winning the Nobel Prize of mathematics, Terence Tao’s life defies ...

Rapid acceleration of AI toward the technological singularity, driven by open-source projects like Clawdbot (also referred to as Maltbot or OpenClaw). Roth and others say we have crossed and ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...

Mathematician Terence Tao recently described how he used ChatGPT to help solve a math problem on MathOverflow. Tao had a theoretical analysis but needed concrete numbers to check certain inequalities.