'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem

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OpenAI's controversial claim to have cracked the Navier-Stokes existence-and-smoothness problem has sent shock waves through the mathematics community.

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  • Reported by Live Science and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:25:53 UTC.

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