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The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem

Thursday, September 10, 2026


Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster was working on a proof when OpenAI published a related result. Anthropic was also involved in research on the same mathematical problem. The timing of the publications raised questions about resource allocation in artificial intelligence research.

Original reporting: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/science/tristan-buckmaster-openai-math-navier-stokes.html

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