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President Donald Trump on Monday had an awkward moment at the G7 summit in France while greeting French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron. The encounter began with a relatively ...

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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades by Paul Arnold, Phys.org edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...