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OpenAI on X: May 20, 2026: "Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For ne... (opens in new tab)

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Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

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Scientific American
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AI just solved an 80-year-old ‘Erdős problem,’ and mathematicians are amazed

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latent.space
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[AINews] OpenAI GPT-next disproves 80 year old Erdős planar unit distance problem for under $1000

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TechCrunch·

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

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AI Newsletter·

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Yahoo News·

Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

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