OpenAI Says Its AI Broke a 27 Year Old Computing Assumption

OpenAI says its models disproved a hypothesis computer scientists have trusted since 1999, and experts are now checking the proof line by line. OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved a Famous Computing Hypothesis, October 28, 2026 OpenAI says its internal models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, proved the local smoothing conjecture in every dimension, and produced an existence proof for quantum chromodynamics. Brian and Jessica unpack what was actually claimed, how Lean proof checking and o...