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Aviation experts believe they may finally be on the brink of solving one of history's greatest mysteries - the disappearance of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart nearly 90 years ago. The pioneering ...

A thread posted July 15 on the r/math subreddit claims that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, guided by a carefully constructed prompt, produced a formal mathematical proof that closes a gap in convex optimization ...