A new underground industry has emerged where people are buying raw compounds for Ozempic, Botox, filler and skin-tightening ...

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released a mathematical reasoning model that can identify and correct its own errors. The model beat the best human score in one of the world’s ...

DeepMind is pushing artificial intelligence into one of the hardest arenas in science, building a system that can navigate the unforgiving logic of formal mathematical proofs. Instead of just ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

In the past two decades, computers have gradually toppled human champions in games of perfect information. It mastered checkers, then chess (Deep Blue), and finally, the profoundly complex game of Go ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

A team of physicists has presented new mathematical evidence that challenges the long-debated idea the universe might be a computer simulation. The findings argue that the nature of physical reality ...

Physicists present evidence that the universe is not a computer simulation. Credit: Amanclos / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr A team of physicists has presented new mathematical evidence that challenges the ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this topic [Kevin ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just summarizing articles or generating code snippets — it’s stepping into the world of advanced mathematics. Recently, a claim surfaced that GPT-5 Pro, OpenAI’s ...