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OpenAI accused of pressuring Anthropic co-author off Navier-Stokes paper

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A mathematics professor at NYU's Courant Institute, Tristan Buckmaster, has accused OpenAI of attempting to remove his Anthropic co-author, Levent Alpoge, from a paper on the Navier-Stokes problem. Buckmaster alleges that OpenAI, through Sébastien Bubeck, proposed a concurrent release and later suggested Alpoge be removed from authorship due to his affiliation with Anthropic. OpenAI has denied these allegations, calling them false and inflammatory, while Buckmaster maintains his account is accurate. AI

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OpenAI accused of pressuring Anthropic co-author off Navier-Stokes paper

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  1. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Breach Protocol ·

    Buckmaster says OpenAI asked him to drop his Anthropic coauthor

    <p>Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematics professor at NYU's Courant Institute, published a signed statement on September 8, 2026 alleging that OpenAI twice proposed removing his collaborator Levent Alpoge from authorship of a paper about the Navier-Stokes problem, and that when he sa…

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