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OPENAI ACCUSED OF AGGRESSIVE TACTICS ON MATH PRIZE

An NYU mathematician claims OpenAI employed unfair methods regarding the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, which carries a $1 million bounty for its first solver.

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