Simple math equation can be solved using 5th-grade trick, yet many are still stumped — can you figure it out?

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary ...
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He solved a $1 million math problem… then walked away

In 2002, an unknown mathematician quietly posted a paper online that stunned the academic world. It solved a problem that had defeated the greatest minds for over a century. A $1 million prize and the ...
TechCrunch

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...
eWeek

GPT-5.2 Just Solved a 30-Year Math Problem

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
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GPT-5 allegedly solves open math problem without human help

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 ...
Forbes

UC San Diego Finds One In Eight Freshmen Lack High-School Math Skills

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Newsweek

Students at California University Without 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...
Indiatimes

5 Math Problem-Solving Strategies Every Student Should Master by Age 14

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math

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, ...
The Guardian

Google DeepMind claims ‘historic’ AI breakthrough in problem solving

Version of company’s Gemini 2.5 AI model solved complex real-world problem that stumped human programmers Google DeepMind claims it has made a “historic” artificial intelligence breakthrough akin to ...