SCOUT· 69%1h 07m·2026-10-18·ScienceMathematicians Are The Canary Down The AI Coal Mine
OpenAI claims a swarm of AI agents has solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the hardest unsolved questions in mathematics, with a $1 million prize attached. Then it released more than 700 more mathematical manuscripts, including claims touching the Riemann hypothesis, faster than anyone can check them.…
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