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AI achieves major breakthroughs in math, protein folding, and cryptography

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AI systems have demonstrated significant advancements between May and July 2026, achieving several major breakthroughs. These systems disproved a long-standing mathematical conjecture, solved the Erdos unit distance problem, and achieved a perfect score at the International Math Olympiad. Furthermore, AI predicted over a billion protein structures, surpassing previous benchmarks, and successfully broke weakened encryption algorithms and a NIST post-quantum cryptography candidate in controlled environments. AI

IMPACT These advancements suggest AI is rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and posing new challenges for cybersecurity.

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · presentofai ·

    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 sc

    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…

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