{"id":24836,"date":"2026-09-12T08:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/immature-playground-boasting-mathematicians-uneasy-at-openais-latest-scalp\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:37:41","slug":"immature-playground-boasting-mathematicians-uneasy-at-openais-latest-scalp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/immature-playground-boasting-mathematicians-uneasy-at-openais-latest-scalp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immature playground boasting\u2019: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI\u2019s latest scalp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change<\/p>\n<p>It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/21\/openai-paul-erdos-maths-problem-breakthrough\">flurry of cases<\/a> of artificial intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/blog\/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level\/\">furthering the field<\/a>, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement bore little resemblance to how mathematical problems normally fall. A near-trillion dollar private company had unleashed 10,000 agents \u2013 AI systems that carry out tasks autonomously \u2013 on the problem. The bill was estimated at $15m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/sep\/12\/openai-mathematicians-millennium-prize-problem\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2ef5f466c1ffa22c4d545e7d74155b5dd8b38e24\/557_0_3390_2712\/master\/3390.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9a1e70e87f23ed65b95fa0da4c1f04e3\" title=\"\u2018Immature playground boasting\u2019: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI\u2019s latest scalp\" \/>As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change<br \/>\nIt was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades.<br \/>\nThe achievement bore little resemblance to how mathematical problems normally fall. A near-trillion dollar private company had unleashed 10,000 agents \u2013 AI systems that carry out tasks autonomously \u2013 on the problem. The bill was estimated at $15m. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/immature-playground-boasting-mathematicians-uneasy-at-openais-latest-scalp\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Immature playground boasting\u2019: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI\u2019s latest scalp<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}