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A priority dispute is rattling the mathematics community after OpenAI researcher Sébastien Bubeck published what he claimed was a breakthrough proof for the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the most famous unsolved problems in math, worth one million dollars. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster says Bubeck learned of his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge and raced to claim credit. It's a story about ambition, attribution, and what happens when AI labs enter pure mathematics.
That Navier-Stokes dispute lands on the same day that hackers are quietly draining Claude subscribers dry. Anthropic has confirmed that bad actors are stealing API tokens from user accounts, siphoning computational credits without users noticing. One subscriber first spotted the theft when his account burned through tokens during hours he wasn't even working. Anthropic has issued warnings, but the mechanics of how accounts were compromised remain unclear.
And rounding out today's stories, a small but pointed piece of internet culture has quietly vanished. The White House removed its browser game called Build the Wall, a Tetris-style clone that filtered classic block-stacking mechanics through the Trump administration's immigration agenda. It drew attention as an unusual use of official government web infrastructure for political messaging, and now it's gone without explanation.
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