An AI Disproved a Problem Mathematicians Sat On for 80 Years
A general reasoning model was handed a 1946 question from Paul Erdos and returned a 125 page counterexample. No hints, no step by step guidance, no training for the task.
Aug 4, 2026

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A general reasoning model was handed a 1946 question from Paul Erdos and returned a 125 page counterexample. No hints, no step by step guidance, no training for the task.
Aug 4, 2026

Apple's first home hub pairs a seven-inch screen with Siri AI and face recognition for six people, ships on 13 November, and is held back in Europe by a missing assistant.
Oct 15, 2026

Tokyo supplies the money, GlobalFoundries runs the plants at Malta, New York, and Washington takes a bigger equity stake, with the first fab due to produce chips in 2029.
Oct 15, 2026

A Kyoto University and Hiroshima University team demonstrated the first method for identifying W state entanglement among three photons, closing a gap that had resisted physicists since the state was first described in the late 1990s.
Oct 1, 2026

Published in Science on 18 September, the experiment used a qubit taking hundreds of measurements within two milliseconds to catch a phonon's abrupt jump, a century after physicists first predicted the effect in atoms.
Sep 24, 2026

A 7.6-inch inner screen, a 5.4-inch outer one, Touch ID in the side button, two batteries and a titanium body. Plus the iPhone 18 Pro from 1,199 dollars, two new watches and AirPods 5. What was said, and what was not.
Sep 10, 2026
