The Millennium Prize breakthrough is proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress ...

As the leading AI labs battle for math supremacy, OpenAI spent millions of dollars and cracked the Navier-Stokes problem. Rivals are already challenging AI’s biggest math breakthrough yet.

The company’s announcement has been dogged by questions about whether it improperly used work from another research team or sought to deny credit — allegations OpenAI denies.

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that scientists use when they try to work backward from what they can measure to ...