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 ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

A bill proposing a new way of determining what qualifies as a conforming loan would expand the jumbo market and invite more private capital into mortgage lending — but critics warn it could also push ...

THIS little book deserves hearty welcome from those who are engaged in leading forward students to the higher mathematics; not so much as a substitute for any other work at present in use, but as ...

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — The Brookhaven Police Department is warning parents to pay more attention to how their children are using electric bikes in the city limits. According to the department, there are ...

In December 2025, a group of researchers from around the world, including UC Berkeley math professor Nikhil Srivastava, gathered inside the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Supreme Court has decided to hear a lawsuit over a ballot measure that would change voter-approved legislative term limits. The suit, filed in late January, alleges that ...

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 ...

American states have a vast range of speed limits, and we may soon have our very own version of the Autobahn. Again. With some caveats. Arizona state Rep. Nick Kupper recently introduced House Bill ...

The IRS has announced individual retirement account contribution limits for 2026. For 2026, investors can save a maximum of $7,500 in IRAs, up from $7,000 in 2025. IRA catch-up contributions for ...