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A Tennessee laboratory that's spent two decades quietly powering discoveries in everything from smartphones to spacecraft just doubled its scientific firepower. The innovations happening at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are about to speed up the journey from brilliant idea to life-changing technology.
Artificial intelligence is now helping mathematicians discover and prove new results in a single day that would have previously taken weeks or months. By early 2026, AI models successfully solved over half of 10 research-level math problems chosen specifically because they'd never been encountered before.