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$AI math shocks Donald Knuth with joy$

News Mar 5, 2026

AI math shocks Donald Knuth with joy

Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth is shocked with joy by a significant breakthrough in combinatorial mathematics achieved via AI.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

Mindbytes May 22, 2026

Chinese money plant uses geometry to build its leaves

Linsey Smith 1 min read

News Mar 3, 2026

Aletheia and the Era of Autonomous Science

How Google DeepMind’s new research agent is solving open conjectures and writing its own papers.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

News Jul 1, 2026

Quantum approach helps predict outcomes for young cancer patients

Mathematics inspired by quantum physics enables analysis of millions of molecular details from small groups of patients to guide better treatments.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

$Harmonic’s AI Aristotle claims solution to historic math puzzle$

News Dec 1, 2025

Harmonic’s AI Aristotle claims solution to historic math puzzle

A new artificial intelligence system autonomously generates a proof for a variant of Erdős Problem #124, sparking debate over the future of machine reasoning.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

$New AI approach solves difficult math problems in science$

News May 4, 2026

New AI approach solves difficult math problems in science

Penn engineers create mollifier layers to help artificial intelligence work backward from observations and uncover hidden natural processes more reliably.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

$Google DeepMind launches AI for math initiative$

News Oct 30, 2025

Google DeepMind launches AI for math initiative

The program unites leading institutions to harness artificial intelligence for solving complex math problems and speeding up scientific breakthroughs.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read