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Why is there controversy around OpenAI’s Millennium Prize maths breakthrough?


8 September should have been an exciting day of celebration for mathematicians worldwide. Instead, it became a confusing, salacious and intriguing drama. Why was the solution to one of the world's toughest mathematical problems embroiled in controversy?

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