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

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

The Decoder · Sep 8, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

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 refused, according to Buckmaster's account.…