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PublishedOctober 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

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"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this wee
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