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AI-powered breakthroughs are raising big questions about how to do mathematics – and why we do it in the first place.

The human played an invaluable role despite not understanding any of the math. Instead, he provided encouragement.

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OpenAI’s Astra generates machine‑checkable proofs for ten decades‑old math problems, showing how verified AI can cut discovery costs to about two thousand dollars.

The college entrance exam that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth hailed as the nation's new "gold standard," promising to open doors at some of America's most elite institutions, is instead seeing its ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early August 2026 pushed the story into new territory. The company said its latest ...

Rust holds its top 10 spot, Python stays No. 1, the leading languages keep their July positions, and MATLAB drops out of TIOBE’s top 20 in August. Rust held onto its place in the TIOBE Index top 10 in ...