Mathematician Johannes Schmitt reports that GPT-5 has independently solved an open mathematical problem for the first time. The resulting paper clearly documents the collaboration between humans and ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

A new law signed by President Donald Trump is set to change how the Internal Revenue Service communicates with taxpayers when it believes they have made math or clerical errors on their returns. The ...

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That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

A living genius recently solved an ancient mathematical problem, first tackled by Greek mathematician Euclid over two millennia ago. However, the brain behind the impressive solution is an imprisoned ...

Abstract: Solving mathematical (math) word problems (MWP) automatically is a challenging research problem in natural language processing, machine learning, and education (learning) technology domains, ...

When the digital revolution first hit classrooms in the early 2010s—and more schools began issuing laptops or tablets to students for individual use—online learning seemed to promise a faster, easier ...

Search and rescue teams comb the banks of the Guadalupe River near Kerrville, Texas, on Saturday, just over a week after a deadly flash flood swept through the area.

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...