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Can you show where it was discounted? Last I heard OpenAI was declining to deny it, presumably while they thoroughly confirmed.

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> “Following an investigation, we have confirmed that Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the two months preceding this announcement and paper on September 8, 2026, could not have influenced the system in any way, including through training.”

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

Come on, they were working on this for more than 2 months. Dont fall for the corporate half truths.

Buckmaster himself said essentially all the progress they made was from July 15th onwards (with a new model on the problem) with no real progress prior to then.

I think it’s really cope to claim this was a human result being stolen.

I wasn’t asking because I trust them; I was asking because their denying it materially changes the situation.

If anything, the fact that they didn’t immediately deny it leads me to believe that they at least took the concern seriously.

Thanks!

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