AI may have solved a major fluid-flow math puzzle, stirring controversy

Science News reports that AI may have solved a long-standing puzzle about whether the Navier–Stokes equations can break down, with the apparent feat drawing controversy. A creator sharing a fluid-flow visualization describes OpenAI’s proposed proof as involving a specially forced flow whose speed grows without bound in finite time while total energy stays finite. The creator notes that their vortex-ring demonstration uses the same equations but does not develop that singularity.