When artificial intelligence systems began cracking previously unsolved mathematical problems, the academic world faced an ...

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...

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