GoKawiilResearchers report being outpaced by AI agents on unpublished math and science problems
Mathematicians including Tristan Buckmaster of New York University say that after working for about a year on a fluid-dynamics puzzle related to the Navier-Stokes problem, OpenAI announced its agents had solved it the day after Buckmaster posted his own progress. Scientists say this is one of at least two recent cases in five weeks where AI companies reached or announced results on questions researchers were already pursuing, prompting some to limit sharing unpublished work with AI tools.