ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.

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A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with ...

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

Excel's randomization functions generate values, shuffle datasets, and simulate timelines using simple formulas.

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Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.