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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:19:25 AM UTC.

Ask HN: Can anyone name anything new that AI has done? direct repository linkDebated

Participants debate whether current AI systems have produced genuinely novel achievements or merely reassembled existing data, with some citing mathematical proofs and protein folding as evidence of new capabilities while others argue these are just correlations. The strongest disagreement centers on the definition of novelty, contrasting the view that AI synthesizes known information against the counter-argument that such synthesis constitutes a new form of discovery comparable to human intellectual work.

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They just merged my PR for the current tightest bound on the integer multiplication problem: https://github.com/CrocSwap/integer-mult-bounds/pull/37#even... Something interesting happened last night: Researchers started proposing tighter conditional bounds for integer multiplication, submitted by OpenAI yesterday, then a swarm of collaborators online pushed it even further. Its so interesting that human researchers provided the insights to push to the out-of distribution solutions that no one model reached alone. I just submitted the current new best conditional bound, conditional κ = 4.123863984e-5, and I have a very useful system setup for auto-research that requires human intuition to reach out-of-distribution solutions. I have a list of ideas to test so we may not be done yet :) Original paper from OpenAI: https://github.com/openai/m
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In They just merged my PR for the bound on the integer multiplication problem
They just retracted 3 manuscripts: In “Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds” a sign error invalidates a stabilization-trace cancellation argument and the construction used by two dependent papers. As a result, we have withdrawn the following three manuscripts: - Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds - Algebraicity of Kuga–Satake Correspondences for K3 Surfaces - The rational Hodge conjecture for products of K3 surfaces These were all related to the Hodge conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize problems. I wonder how many more will be retracted in the coming months. https://github.com/openai/math/pull/1/files/301488868beec11b...
In Sharing AI progress in mathematics

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