OpenAI claims new reasoning model disproves 1946 Erdős geometry conjecture, but credibility questioned after past false claims
OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last e...
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