[OpenAI Denies Misusing Mathematician's Unpublished Research: Codex Drafts Did Not Influence Navier-Stokes Proof] Beating AI News Flash: OpenAI has recently responded to the controversy surrounding the Navier-Stokes proof, explicitly denying allegations of misusing unpublished research by New York University mathematician Tristan Buckmaster. Following an internal investigation, the company stated that prompts submitted by Buckmaster to Codex over the past two months could not have influenced the internal model in any way, including through training. Previously, Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge had been working in the same research direction, with a large number of drafts uploaded to Codex. After their progress was shared with OpenAI, the company reportedly utilized concentrated computational resources to produce the Navier-Stokes proof within days. This led Buckmaster to suspect that his unpublished research might have been absorbed by the model. OpenAI has now explicitly denied this claim. Additionally, OpenAI has set a clear temporal boundary at July 3, stating that any user inputs after this date could not have influenced the system. Some in the community speculate that this date might correspond to a specific training data cutoff or model checkpoint, but OpenAI has not provided further clarification. Buckmaster and Alpöge's critical breakthrough occurred in mid-August, well after OpenAI's declared July 3 boundary. [Original Article Link]