<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mathematics | AI Tracker</title><description>Competition math, open research problems and formal proofs.</description><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/</link><language>en</language><generator>AI Tracker</generator><item><title>Claude Fable 5.2 ranks first overall in independent tests (174 vs 169), but not on science</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/claude-fable-5-2-release/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/claude-fable-5-2-release/</guid><description>Anthropic released it on 9 November 2026. Independent tests put it level with rivals on hard maths and behind them on PhD-level science.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>benchmarks</category><category>math</category></item><item><title>Myth check: “AI can&apos;t create new knowledge, it only remixes its training data”</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-ai-cant-create-new-knowledge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-ai-cant-create-new-knowledge/</guid><description>AI disproved an 80-year-old conjecture and designed antibiotics that worked in mice. Real finds come where answers can be checked.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>myths</category><category>math</category><category>biology</category></item><item><title>OpenAI says its AI disproved a core assumption of computer science; experts are reviewing it</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/eth-refutation-claim/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/eth-refutation-claim/</guid><description>OpenAI claims an AI-found algorithm refutes the Exponential Time Hypothesis, with a checked proof. The idea&apos;s originators are reviewing it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>computer-science</category></item><item><title>OpenAI posted 721 AI-written maths papers; by its count, about 42% have computer-checked proofs</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-math-repository-721-manuscripts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-math-repository-721-manuscripts/</guid><description>An unnamed OpenAI model was set about 4,000 open problems and wrote up the results it claims. Most still await review by human experts.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>autonomy</category></item><item><title>Experts call an OpenAI model&apos;s proof a major step towards the Riemann Hypothesis, not a solution</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/quasi-riemann-hypothesis-ai-proof/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/quasi-riemann-hypothesis-ai-proof/</guid><description>The Riemann Hypothesis says key zeros of a famous function all have real part 1/2. An AI proof shows none lie beyond 7/8, a first.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category></item><item><title>Hype check: “AI solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem”</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/navier-stokes-myth-ai-solved-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/navier-stokes-myth-ai-solved-it/</guid><description>OpenAI&apos;s proof needs a designed outside force pushing the fluid, which the prize rules allow. A fluid left alone is still an open question.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>myths</category><category>math</category></item><item><title>AI&apos;s best score on research-level maths problems went from 6% to 98% in about 14 months</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/frontiermath-tier-4-saturated/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/frontiermath-tier-4-saturated/</guid><description>In July 2025 the best AI solved 6% of Epoch AI&apos;s hardest, professor-written maths problems. By September 2026 top models scored 97.6–100%.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>benchmarks</category></item><item><title>OpenAI claims an AI proof that fluid equations can blow up, but only with a designed outside force</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-navier-stokes-forced-blowup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-navier-stokes-forced-blowup/</guid><description>OpenAI says its AI proved fluids can break down, part of a $1 million prize problem. The force-free case is still open; credit is disputed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>autonomy</category></item><item><title>With heavy AI help, two mathematicians proved three fluid equations can break down</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/buckmaster-alpoge-forced-euler-blowup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/buckmaster-alpoge-forced-euler-blowup/</guid><description>Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster&apos;s checked proofs need a smooth outside push. The famous case of a fluid left alone is still open.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category></item><item><title>Claude agents built a computer-checked proof of Fermat&apos;s Last Theorem in 11 days, Anthropic says</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/claude-formalizes-fermats-last-theorem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/claude-formalizes-fermats-last-theorem/</guid><description>Claude agents made Wiles&apos;s proof checkable by computer, a job experts expected to take years. It checked a known proof; no new maths.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>autonomy</category></item><item><title>AI has solved dozens of obscure Erdős problems, but only 3 of 68 major ones under strict rules</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/erdos-problems-ai-scorecard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/erdos-problems-ai-scorecard/</guid><description>Counting every effort, AI has solved 17 of 68 major open Erdős problems. Under Epoch AI&apos;s strict test rules, the best model solves 3.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>benchmarks</category></item><item><title>OpenAI&apos;s unreleased Astra AI produced 10 research results, each with a computer-checked proof</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-ten-advances-astra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-ten-advances-astra/</guid><description>The 10 results include three Erdős problems, and anyone can re-check the proofs by computer. OpenAI reported only its successes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>computer-science</category><category>cost-of-intelligence</category></item><item><title>Two Chinese AI systems were reported to score a perfect 42 of 42 at the 2026 Maths Olympiad</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/imo-2026-perfect-scores/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/imo-2026-perfect-scores/</guid><description>AI from Xiaohongshu and Huawei was reported as officially graded 42 of 42. Seven of 666 students also got full marks. In 2024 AI scored 28.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>benchmarks</category></item><item><title>Mathematicians gave AI 10 unpublished research problems; the best system solved 6</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/first-proof-second-batch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/first-proof-second-batch/</guid><description>Four AI systems tried 10 research problems that had never been published. Referees graded the answers like journal papers.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>benchmarks</category></item><item><title>Google DeepMind&apos;s AI solved 9 open Erdős maths problems, with every proof computer-checked</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/deepmind-alphaproof-nexus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/deepmind-alphaproof-nexus/</guid><description>AlphaProof Nexus also settled 44 of 492 conjectures about number sequences, for a few hundred dollars each. It failed on most it tried.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>cost-of-intelligence</category></item><item><title>An OpenAI model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture; mathematicians checked it</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/erdos-unit-distance-conjecture-disproved/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/erdos-unit-distance-conjecture-disproved/</guid><description>An unreleased OpenAI model found a counterexample few experts expected. Mathematicians checked it the same day; one called it AI&apos;s best yet.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category></item><item><title>An AI finished making a Fields Medal proof about packing spheres fully computer-checked</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/gauss-sphere-packing-dim8-formalized/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/gauss-sphere-packing-dim8-formalized/</guid><description>A team began in 2024 to turn Maryna Viazovska&apos;s proof into code a computer can check. Math Inc&apos;s AI, Gauss, finished it in February 2026.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category></item><item><title>AI helped find fragile new ways fluid equations break down: precise numbers, not proofs</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/deepmind-unstable-singularities-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/deepmind-unstable-singularities-2025/</guid><description>Researchers at Google DeepMind, Brown, NYU and Stanford used AI to find them. They give mathematicians precise leads, not proofs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category></item><item><title>AI from Google and OpenAI hit gold-medal level at the 2025 Maths Olympiad: 35 of 42 points</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/imo-2025-gold-level/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/imo-2025-gold-level/</guid><description>Two AI systems solved 5 of 6 problems with plain-language proofs, in the time limits. The contest graded Google&apos;s; OpenAI chose its graders.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>benchmarks</category></item><item><title>A Google AI beat a 56-year-old maths record and freed up 0.7% of Google&apos;s computing power</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphaevolve-algorithm-discovery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphaevolve-algorithm-discovery/</guid><description>AlphaEvolve multiplies 4×4 grids of complex numbers in 48 steps, not 49, and beat the best known answer on about 20% of 50+ open problems.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category><category>computer-science</category></item><item><title>Outdated: GPT-5 only found old Erdős answers (2025). AI has since solved 17 of 68 major ones</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/erdos-gpt5-literature-search-overclaim/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/erdos-gpt5-literature-search-overclaim/</guid><description>In 2025 an OpenAI executive said GPT-5 solved 10 open Erdős problems; it had found old answers. Since 2026, AI solves open ones itself.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>math</category></item></channel></rss>