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OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper

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Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says an OpenAI researcher pressured him after information about his AI-assisted progress on the Navier-Stokes equations allegedly reached the company. The researcher tried to remove his co-author because he works at Anthropic and threatened Buckmaster when he refuse…

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  1. 2026-09-09 02:59 · r/artificial
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  2. 2026-09-08 19:23 · The Decoder
    OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper

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