As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines
On the morning of September 11, 2026, Dor Minzer received a text message from a friend asking whether he was close to settling one of the most famous open questions in theoretical computer science. Minzer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a leading expert on the “unique games” conjecture, initially thought it was a joke. Then more messages started coming in…
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[1]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/as-ai-closed-in-on-unique-games-proof-researchers-raced-to-beat-the-machines-20261007/
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