Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem
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Top-tier mathematicians getting pulled into lab disputes over Millennium Prize problems shows frontier AI is now entangled with prestige science, not just benchmarks. For research leaders, the bar for attribution, collaboration terms, and publication strategy just went up.
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