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An Anthropic AI model, Claude Fable 5, helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, a famous open problem in mathematics dating to 1939. The model produced a concrete counterexample that ...

Disproving the Jacobian conjecture marks the latest high-profile win in a historic year for frontier AI models in theoretical mathematics. (Image created with AI) An Anthropic researcher just gave ...

The Trusts Arena in Henderson became a showcase of extraordinary young talent on Sunday as more than 250 of New Zealand and Australia's brightest young math minds gathered for the SIP Abacus ANZ ...

The Toronto Blue Jays are probably going to end up buying before the MLB trade deadline. The American League is weak, and coming off a season in which they played until Game 7 of the World Series, the ...

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