Parmy Olson, Columnist

OpenAI’s Latest ‘Breakthrough’ Is a Sobering Reality Check

October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM UTC

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October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM UTC

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

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The latest sign came from an embarrassing blunder by the company’s leading scientists over the weekend. “GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems,” the company’s vice president for science, Kevin Weil, breathlessly posted on X in a post that has since been deleted.