A mathematician alleges a lab matched his unpublished work

Claim

Tristan Buckmaster alleged OpenAI learned of his and a colleague's unpublished blowup work, matched it, and met his protest with a question about ruining his career, with the lab unable to rule out that coding-tool data helped while claiming progress on a second Millennium problem.

Reporting date: 2026-09-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to September 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)