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    Where the rumour became public, at 3.4 million views over a weekend. Curran writes about AI to a large audience and is not a mathematician; he later says he had no independent information. Every specific in it is wrong: it was not Anthropic's result, it was not Navier-Stokes, and it was not out for expert review. Buckmaster's statement records that a rumour of this shape is what he wrote to OpenAI about two days later.

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    It's fun to make predictions. Here's a new one:
    Anthropic has solved a Millennium Prize Problem.
    And I'll be even more specific.
    Claude has solved Navier–Stokes.
    It is out for expert review.
    And to give myself a hard deadline, they will announce it before the IPO.

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