OpenAI announced an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, to give mathematicians input into its math research. The move follows OpenAI's claim that an internal model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem plus over 100 other open math problems, and comes after 25 Fields Medal winners signed a letter warning AI labs are undermining mathematical scholarship. Nine mathematicians have joined as founding members of the unpaid advisory body.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-21
Terence Tao published a blog post detailing his reasons for not adding his name to a letter signed by fellow Fields Medal winners. The post opens with an extended personal anecdote about his childhood fascination with Fermat's Last Theorem before turning to his actual rationale for abstaining from the collective statement.
gowers.wordpress.com
· 2026-09-17
OpenAI announced on 8 September that one of its AI models had solved a major open problem in fluid dynamics, the Navier-Stokes puzzle. The claim provoked backlash after researchers, including Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge, said they had already been working on the same problem using AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic and were tipped off before the announcement. Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have since signed an open letter warning that AI involvement in mathematics raises serious plagiarism and credit-attribution concerns.
nature.com
· 2026-09-17
Jean-Pierre Serre, the French mathematician who won both the Fields Medal and the inaugural Abel Prize, has reached his 100th birthday. His decades-long body of work spans algebraic geometry, topology and number theory, and includes foundational texts such as Trees and A Course of Arithmetic.
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
· 2026-09-15
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners signed an open letter warning that AI labs, especially OpenAI, are racing to claim credit for solving famous math problems without proper verification or acknowledgment of human collaborators. The dispute intensified after NYU's Tristan Buckmaster alleged OpenAI pressured him to omit credit to an Anthropic-affiliated collaborator, and OpenAI subsequently pulled its sponsorship from a CalTech math event following backlash from researchers there.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-11
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