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.

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

During Chapter 3: All the Time in the World, you'll be tasked with investigating the Dining Room during your pursuit for the blond man. While a few clues are spread out around the room, 007 First ...

The first of a new generation of neutrino experiments has begun to make its mark. With just two months of data, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment in Guangdong, China, has ...

At Data + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi unveiled LTAP, a new architecture that collapses the 40-year unification ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...