OpenAI has formed an independent nine-member Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, announced via a post on Terence Tao's blog, meant to help review and communicate the company's mathematical results. The group's first task is reportedly helping coordinate release of numerous new results from an unreleased OpenAI model, but mathematicians who spoke to The Verge, including a group member, described the rollout as messy and confusing.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-28
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 published a preprint claiming to show that the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern fluid motion, can break down under certain conditions, describing a spinning fluid system reaching infinite speed in finite time. The claim addresses part of one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems, but mathematicians have raised concerns over how the result was announced and over authorship disputes involving researchers connected to rival company Anthropic.
nature.com
· 2026-09-09
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