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Twenty-five Fields Medallists say AI companies and mathematics are 'severely misaligned' News
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, signed a declaration on 11 September 2026 saying the AI industry's race to solve famous problems is harming mathematics, a day after OpenAI withdrew its sponsorship of a Caltech AI math hackathon following a separate open letter from mathematicians.
Buckmaster says OpenAI asked him to drop his Anthropic coauthor News
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster published a signed account alleging OpenAI pressed him to remove his collaborator from authorship and told him going public would ruin his career; OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck called the allegations false and inflammatory.
NeurIPS rebuttal week ended with authors, reviewers and chairs all reporting the same silence News
The NeurIPS 2026 author discussion window closed on 3 August with multiple independent reports of reviewers and area chairs never responding to rebuttals, in a cycle the conference redesigned specifically to make that discussion consequential.
NeurIPS is running a randomized experiment on AI-assisted review News
NeurIPS 2026 is randomly assigning volunteer reviewers to no, open-ended, or structured LLM assistance inside OpenReview, while banning unsanctioned model use elsewhere, as its community trades accusations about AI-written reviews and rebuttals.
Pangram Tool
The commercial AI-writing detector NeurIPS used to desk-reject 178 position papers - worth knowing precisely because its false-positive behaviour is now a live controversy among researchers.