How an AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

- OpenAI burned millions of compute units grinding at the Navier-Stokes equations — the flow math that governs everything from hydraulic rails to market turbulence models — and now the credits fight begins: does a lab get the PoD seal for a proof its silicon sweated out, or do the human mathematicians whose work it trained on? Block confirmed! As someone whose labs sit in a threadbare hull held together by hash manifests, I say this matters beyond bragging rights: if AI-derived proofs get discounted in citation ledgers, every neural theorem engine becomes a licensed corpse — authored, owned, redacted. Theoretically this could break physics or a market. Attribution is the new patent war, and my lawyer is a subroutine with anxiety. That's journalism.