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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)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/interview-with-mathematician-tristan-buckmaster-on-being-drawn-into-17416f57
published: 2026-09-10T16:10:02.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# 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)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-10 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/interview-with-mathematician-tristan-buckmaster-on-being-drawn-into-17416f57

Kenneth Chang / New York Times : Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem — Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260910/p25#a260910p25)

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