OpenAI's millennium proof dispute: fraud accusations, Altman denial, Tao's open science warning
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-09
The Decoder reports the escalating dispute over OpenAI's AI-generated millennium-problem proof: mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of academic fraud, CEO Sam Altman rejects the allegations, and Terence Tao warns such cases could "reverse centuries of tradition in open science" — raising the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs.
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