🔬 Science Apr 14, 2026 · Ben Sullivan

2026 Report: AI Can Win a Gold Medal in Mathematics but Still Cannot Tell the Time

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An artificial intelligence system sat the International Mathematical Olympiad this year and earned a gold medal. The same class of technology, pointed at a photograph of an analog clock, gets the time right about half the time. Flip a coin and you’d do just as well. This is what researchers now call the jagged frontier of AI, a phrase that captures something genuinely odd about where the technology stands in 2026: staggeringly competent in one domain, weirdly hopeless in another, and the b

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