Immunotherapy has transformed outcomes for many cancer patients. Unlike conventional treatments, these therapies do not ...

In late July at UC Merced, a classroom of middle school students split into teams for a game of Jeopardy. One problem: if the base of a 12-foot ladder rests 3 feet from a wall, how high up the wall ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

There’s a $1-million prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem ...

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While most people expected LeBron James to head back to the Cleveland Cavaliers or Miami Heat, he shocked the basketball world by agreeing to sign with with the Philadelphia 76ers. Once again, James ...

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 ...

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This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...