Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review

Two things arrived simultaneously this week: Tristan Buckmaster's documented account of what OpenAI proposed to him in the days before the Navier-Stokes announcement, and a declaration signed by 25 Fields Medalists arguing that AI companies' benchmark-driven approach is "severely misaligned" with the goals of mathematics. They are the same argument at different levels of abstraction. Buckmaster's statement is specific about a call on September 6, a. Full edition: hallway.aris.pub/no/025/