AI models are cracking legendary Erdős problems

OpenAI's unreleased model Astra made 10 mathematical advances, including solving three Erdős problems, following an earlier counterexample to the unit distance conjecture. Mathematicians call it a phase transition in AI's mathematical capability.
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