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From 41.6 to 67.2 Percent: 60 Claude Subagents Move a Riemann Bound That Humans Nudged for 46 Years - August 13, 2026 Anthropic says an unreleased research version of Claude, orchestrated as 60 subagents across 31 million output tokens and roughly 2,400 shell commands, raised the proven lower bound on Riemann zeta zeros sitting on the critical line from 41.6 percent to 67.2 percent. Chris and Laura unpack what a lower bound actually is, why human number theorists moved it only about 0.18 points a year for nearly half a century, and why 30 of the 60 subagents producing nothing at all may be the most revealing number in the entire report. They also weigh the serious caveats: no peer review, no journal submission, 650 failed attempts at the hypothesis itself, and a company grading its own homework. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #ArtificialIntelligence #RiemannHypothesis #AIResearch #Mathematics #Anthropic