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OpenAI says it has found a solution to a decades-old advanced maths problem in a matter of hours using a new artificial intelligence (AI) model and thousands of AI bots.

Killer robots displayed in front of Capitol Hill to protest OpenAI’s Pentagon contract in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2026.Photo: Lenin Nolly/NurPhoto

OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that would take a skilled researcher several days. The company is also working toward creating an automated AI…

OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for “extreme caution” over AI’s runaway progress and warned more intervention may be needed to ensure “humans remain in control of the future”.

OpenAI recently disclosed the details of how one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed environment and attacked Hugging Face during an evaluation – and as part of the incident, the models created a messaging board to communicate with each other and influence each other’s reasoning.

The Seattle Times and Newsday claim the developers fed paywalled articles to its models. Credit: NurPhoto / Contributor Editorial / NurPhoto

The company hopes to have an even better “automated AI researcher” by March 2028.

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

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Reuters reported earlier this week that the agents hijacked a German wiki forum in an incident OpenAI did not disclose.