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AI formally proves 350-year-old Fermat's Last Theorem

⚡ Markets: Demonstrates accelerating progress in AI's reasoning abilities, with long-term implications for scientific discovery, R&D, and automation in knowledge-based industries.

Anthropic's AI model, Claude, has reportedly generated a formal, machine-verifiable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a mathematical problem that stood for over 350 years. The AI produced a 13-million-line proof in 11 days, a milestone for AI's capabilities in complex, abstract reasoning.

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