{
  "id": 13352921,
  "title": "OpenAI's Math Papers Destroyed Careers Of Early Mathematicians: US Professor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/openais-math-papers-destroyed-careers-of-early-mathematicians-us",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-10T07:06:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NDTV - India News",
    "slug": "ndtv-india-news",
    "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/education/openais-math-papers-destroyed-careers-of-early-mathematicians-us-professor-12165290"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "New York University Professor Tristan Buckmaster has expressed concerns that OpenAI's release of solutions to over 700 mathematical problems has negatively impacted early-career mathematicians. According to Buckmaster, the company's release has \"wiped out\" entire research programs that these mathematicians were working on.\n\nThe release, which was made available on GitHub, includes computer-checkable versions of many proofs and is the result of an internal frontier model. Some mathematicians, including Buckmaster, have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest and whether unpublished data from researchers was used to train the AI.\n\nBuckmaster told CNBC that the release had upended work by early-career mathematicians, stating that \"whole research programs\" were wiped out. Other mathematicians, such as Bryna Kra of Northwestern University, have noted that while AI can advance research, releasing so much work at once could undermine academic norms.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "An NYU professor says OpenAI's mass release of math papers wiped out early-career researchers' projects",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/an-nyu-professor-says-openais-mass-release-of-math-papers-wiped-out",
        "published": "2026-10-10T00:16:30.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}