Truth Check/9 October 2026
“The "Terence Tao" post on the OpenAI results (8 Oct 2026) is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo”
Holds
The claim holds against the page that produced it.
The post opens with Tao's editorial note naming the guest author; the "alien ideas" line is the guest's.
- Checked Against
- terrytao.wordpress.com ↗Primary
- Read the Check
- OpenAI fired three safety researchers for a 'breach of trust' it will not describe, and pulled three of its 722 maths results. 300 of 719 are computer-checked.
Both sides of the OpenAI firing in their own words - the four-page letter and the 06:17 UTC reply - with no document behind either; "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results" against the repository's own history file; and the 12 November check, one prompt that tells you which of Anthropic's new rules touch your use of Claude.
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