Claude Built Its Own Math Harness and Refuted the Smale Mean Conjecture

Max Leiter and mathematician Alpoge report that Claude autonomously built a math harness inside Slack and found a counterexample to the Smale mean conjecture, refuting it.

2026-09-06 ~ 2026-09-06 · 2 related posts

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