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This Week in Startups · 2026-09-09 · 81 min · 15,928 words

Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335

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NYU mathematician Tristan. Buckmaster put out a statement saying OpenAI only started prompting its model on this problem after word of his own work reached the company. Not surprised at all. You look at the YouTube and the Dropboxes and the like, right? I mean it's it's a it's a common trend. In the scientific community, right, your people are very conscious about what they share with who because they want to control who builds on top of their work. And if you start doing that work in ChatGPU. Clawed, there is a possibility that it makes the next researcher find that direction faster. Agents are scraping the entire web looking for partial solutions and can build on it. So the importance of like locking in your research becomes increasingly stronger. I would not trust them with anything. that's important or proprietary. This idea that you're going to give instinct or

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