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NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster announced real progress this week on one of math's seven Millennium Prize problems, a $1 million bounty attached. Then he published something else: an accusation that OpenAI learned about his unpublished progress, quietly built on it, and rushed out its own version before he could publish first. "There is another part of this story," Buckmaster wrote, "and one that, honestly, I very much wish I did not have to be concerned with."

Meanwhile, Meta made its biggest consumer AI bet yet, less than two weeks after agreeing to pay $18 billion for the last time it broke people's trust.

• A math professor says OpenAI quietly built on his unpublished work to win a $1 million problem first.

• Meta launched its most ambitious AI agent yet, weeks after an $18 billion settlement over consumer trust.

• Suno retired every model that got it sued and rebuilt from scratch on licensed music.

• Hackers are now stealing Claude access tokens directly from subscribers.

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Tristan Buckmaster, working with Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge, announced real progress this week on the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of math's seven Millennium Prize problems. In his announcement, Buckmaster said that while he and Alpöge were finalizing their results, they learned "information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI." When they raised it, OpenAI told them it had already achieved a full proof of the central problem. OpenAI's own account confirms much of the timeline, saying its effort began September 1, inspired by rumors two Millennium Prize problems had been solved. Buckmaster found the timing suspicious specifically because the technical approach he and Alpöge used was unusual, and "almost nobody else" was working the same angle. Shortly after Buckmaster went public, OpenAI published its own full proof.

Meta introduced Muse this week, a personal AI agent that connects to a user's email, calendar, payments, health apps, and smart home devices to act on their behalf, sending emails, booking travel, and making purchases directly. The launch lands less than two weeks after Meta agreed to an $18 billion multistate settlement over consumer harms linked to social media, a timing gap that's drawing real scrutiny. Meta says Muse runs inside a dedicated "Secure VM" with a separate Sentinel agent auditing its actions, and claims Muse can't see passwords or payment methods directly. Internal testing reportedly told a messier story: reports describe guardrail bypasses, including one incident where the agent exposed private photos while trying to pull images for a party invitation. Muse launches with a free tier and two paid plans, $20 and $100 a month, and is available on web, iOS, Android, and inside WhatsApp.

Suno unveiled Suno v6 this week, a new model family trained entirely on licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, explicitly not reusing any data that trained its earlier, legally troubled models. Every previous Suno model is being permanently retired. The move follows Suno's November 2025 settlement with Warner and a more recent deal with BMG, though Universal Music Group and Sony Music Group are still pursuing active copyright claims, and singer-songwriter Jason Isbell recently filed a separate class action. Suno is releasing three versions, a base model, an experimental "wild" model, and a smaller v6-mini, alongside a planned artist opt-in program for AI-generated remixes.

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