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How Anthropic's Claude made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis, aided by a staffer's encouragement

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How Anthropic's Claude made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis, aided by a staffer's encouragement

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