> it was really just listening in on a math professors supposed-to-be-private conversations with another instance of openai, and it used his novel work as the trigger to prove the breakthrough first.
This didn't actually happen.
> Following an investigation, we have confirmed that Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the two months preceding this announcement and paper on September 8, 2026, could not have influenced the system in any way, including through training.