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AI Is Now Solving Problems Science Spent Decades Failing to Crack

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Between May and July 2026, AI systems disproved an 87-year-old conjecture in mathematics, cracked the Erdos unit distance problem, achieved the first perfect score at the International Math Olympiad, predicted over a billion protein structures surpassing AlphaFold, and broke both weakened encryptio…

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  1. 2026-09-11 00:33 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    AI Is Now Solving Problems Science Spent Decades Failing to Crack

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