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AI research

Frontier AI research — reasoning, mathematics and AI applied to scientific discovery.

OpenAI's Navier–Stokes 'solution' comes with a very large asterisk

It cleared the bar the Clay Institute actually set. It did not clear the bar mathematicians actually care about. Both things are true.

4 min read · 8 September 2026

Anthropic3mo ago

Anthropic spent $400M and a Nobel hire on Claude Science. Nobody's locked in.

Novo Nordisk is Anthropic's science partner. It's also OpenAI's. The land grab is real — the land is still unclaimed.

3 min read · 6 July 2026

OpenAI's science week: the results are real — and so are the asterisks

Four announcements in 48 hours. The claims check out. The fine print is the story.

4 min read · 18 June 2026

AI did real maths — here's what that does and doesn't mean

Genuinely impressive. Also genuinely narrow. Both at once.

3 min read · 22 May 2026

AI 'solved' famous maths problems. Read the asterisks.

The results are real. So are the caveats nobody screenshots.

3 min read · 20 May 2026