OpenAI Just Solved One of the Hardest Problems in Math

P.M. Edition for Sept. 8. OpenAI says it’s cracked the Navier-Stokes problem (wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-millennium-prize-navier…), one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that are the deepest and most difficult unresolved questions in mathematics. WSJ Science of Success columnist Ben Cohen (wsj.com/news/author/ben-cohen?mod=WSJ_WNPOD) explains why labs like OpenAI are competing—and spending millions—for such breakthroughs. Plus, a dozen nations are imposing new trade restrictions (wsj.com/world/middle-east/european-nations-imp…) on Israel over the expansion of settlements in the West Bank. And Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, the first African-American and the first historian to lead the institution, is stepping down (wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/smithsonian-secr…) after more than a year of tension with President Trump. Alex Ossola hosts.

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