OpenAI accused of pressuring math researcher over AI breakthrough
openai researcher allegedly pressured mathematician tristan buckmaster to drop anthropic co-author from navier-stokes equations paper. this affects research integrity and ai collaboration.
mathematician tristan buckmaster alleges that openai researcher sébastien bubeck pressured him to remove anthropic co-author levent alpöge from a paper on navier-stokes equations. buckmaster and alpöge had used ai models, including anthropic's claude and openai's codex running gpt-5.6 sol, to make breakthroughs on the problem. openai claimed its own internal model had produced a roughly 100-page proof, but buckmaster questions whether it had access to their work. this incident raises concerns about research integrity, ai collaboration, and the competitive pressures in the field.