Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math's step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers remove any ...