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  "id": 6608436,
  "title": "Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/interview-with-mathematician-tristan-buckmaster-on-being-drawn-into",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-10T16:10:02.000Z",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and used an internal model to solve it (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/mathematician-tristan-buckmaster-alleges-openai-learned-of-his-work",
        "published": "2026-09-08T15:50:01.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough (Wired)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/openai-denies-that-its-researchers-or-models-saw-buckmaster-or",
        "published": "2026-09-08T17:02:43.000Z"
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        "title": "OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/openais-sebastien-bubeck-says-he-never-asked-for-removal-of-levent",
        "published": "2026-09-08T18:45:01.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI says, while unlikely, it \"cannot rule out that de-identified data derived\" from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models (OpenAI)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/openai-says-while-unlikely-it-cannot-rule-out-that-de-identified-data",
        "published": "2026-09-08T19:05:01.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "‘Gambling with our lives’: Why a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic and OpenAI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/gambling-with-our-lives-why-a-27-year-old-researcher-quit-anthropic",
        "published": "2026-09-09T05:00:35.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Anthropic says it disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists using its models for research that could have helped develop biological weapons (Dustin Volz/New York Times)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/anthropic-says-it-disrupted-several-potential-plots-this-year-by",
        "published": "2026-09-10T17:25:00.000Z"
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  "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."
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