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What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

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6 SIGNALSFIRST DETECTED 9 September 2026
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11 Sept
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14 Oct
GPT-6 Astra autonomously solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics research problems, scoring 98% at under $3 per problem. Researchers initially marked several answers wrong, only to discover the AI had caught errors in the calculations of world-class physicists.

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OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
11 May
Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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OPINION · WHO · OpenAIOPEN STORY
12 Sept
OpenAI's feud with mathematicians is only escalating

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OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
10 Sept
Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work

Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether

REPORT · WHO · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
8 Sept
OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

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OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
12 Sept
OpenAI just wants to win

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a

REPORT · WHEN · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
6 Oct
For 31 years, mathematicians couldn’t finish this proof. The new paper says ChatGPT found most of the ideas and proofs behind a problem tied to efficient computer search and sampling, while the authors mostly worked to understand and explain it.

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OPINION · WHO · singularityOPEN STORY
24 May
Google DeepMind's Al agent autonomously solved 9 of 353 open Erdos problems in mathematics, at a cost of a few hundred dollars per problem.

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