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AI news on May 20, 2026 · Wednesday

11 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.
★ Top story · OtherMay 20

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.