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OpenAI has thrown the mathematics world into turmoil. On October 6 and 7, the company published 722 manuscripts on GitHub claiming progress on 372 families of long-standing open problems, spanning theoretical computer science, physics, and mathematics, produced by an unreleased internal AI model whose full capabilities have not been disclosed.

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South Korea is going big on AI sovereignty. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced October 6, 2026 that the country will launch a 4.7 trillion won program, roughly 3.5 billion dollars, starting in March 2027 to develop a frontier AI model that can compete with the best in the world.

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Washington's latest bid to wire frontier AI into federal science work now has a price tag: 2.4 billion dollars. A White House fact sheet released October 8, 2026 says eleven industry partners have committed that total in science tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, a push to put modern AI capabilities behind federal research.

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