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AI SOLVES A LONGSTANDING GEOMETRY CONJECTURE
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An OpenAI reasoning model autonomously disproved a major conjecture tied to the planar unit distance problem, an open question in combinatorial geometry that dates back to 1946. The proof introduced techniques from algebraic number theory and was independently verified by external mathematicians, marking one of the first cases where an AI system resolved a prominent unsolved mathematics problem.