OpenAI said in an announcement on October 26, 2026, that its internal models produced three research results in mathematics, computer science, and physics, including a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture in computational complexity theory. In the company’s view, the AI-generated manuscripts amount to raw research data that must still be converted into scientific understanding, and it is experimenting with a new release approach toward that end. OpenAI asked…