A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997

OpenAI says 10,000 of its agents solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours, but one mathematician has challenged the claim.

As companies entrust AI systems with increasingly valuable intellectual property, the policies governing model training, retention and access become part of the technical architecture, not simply language in a privacy statement.

Professor Tristan Buckmaster said he and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge have spent much of the past year working on the Navier-Stokes problem.

Whether those accusations are true or not, the episode may mark a turning point in the history of mathematics. AI models now seem essential for making progress on the field’s most important problems,