EventScienceSeptember 10, 2026

OpenAI pulls out of Caltech math hackathon after mathematician backlash

OpenAI research lead Dan Roberts said the company is no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon after current and former Caltech mathematicians signed an open letter calling the event destructive to their field. The letter, which criticizes "slop mathematics," followed OpenAI's claim that its agents solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes equations.

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