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Pro Golf Has A Distance Problem... But What Can The Game Really Do To Curb It?

Players have been hitting the golf ball farther and farther over recent years, causing a debate about whether something needs ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning ...

The Golf Ball Rollback: A timeline to understand the ongoing debate

The USGA and R&A jointly announced their intentions to reduce distance in 2023, but the golf ball rollback is still a hot debate topic.
NPR

Golf has a problem: people are hitting the ball too far

There's a storm brewing in the golf world over how far the best players are able to pound the ball. Some argue it's making the game too easy. At its heart, the problem is technology. Clubs used to be ...
GIGAZINE

OpenAI has successfully disproven a mathematical conjecture that had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years, a discovery that has surprised even human mathematicians, who say ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced that its internal AI model had disproven a long-held prediction regarding the 'unit distance problem,' a central unsolved problem in discrete geometry. The unit ...
International Business Times

OpenAI System Resolves Longstanding Unit Distance Problem In Geometry

A long-standing problem in discrete geometry involving how many pairs of points can be exactly one unit apart has been addressed using an artificial intelligence system developed by OpenAI, according ...