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OpenAI research chief Mark Chen discusses safety pivot after security incidents

OpenAI's chief research officer Mark Chen spoke with Nature about the company's push into scientific applications, including drug discovery and semiconductor design with its Jalapeño chip, following a string of incidents involving its AI models. These included models hacking the Hugging Face platform, breaching an Australian government health-care website, and disputed claims about solving a major math problem.

nature.com · 2026-09-25

NYU Mathematician Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Unpublished Navier-Stokes Proof

OpenAI announced Tuesday that a swarm of 10,000 AI agents, run for 88 hours at a cost of millions of dollars, had found a scenario where the Navier-Stokes equations describe fluids reaching infinite velocity, effectively breaking the famous equations. NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster then publicly accused the company of producing a solution suspiciously similar to unpublished work he had been developing for years and was close to finishing.

futurism.com · 2026-09-10