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Exclusive: Economists have been teaching an unproven proof for 50 years.

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What happened

Exclusive: Economists have been teaching an unproven proof for 50 years.

Why it matters

AI just solved it Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann’s 1976 theorem dozens of times.

Common ground

He’s assigned it in economics courses at Harvard.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann’s 1976 theorem dozens of times.”
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The claim is explicitly confirmed by Flipboard, Seeking Alpha, and multiple web search results stating Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann's 1976 theorem dozens of times.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 · Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann's 1976 theorem dozens of times. He's assigned it in economics courses at Harvard. He's built on it in ...
https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/axiom-math-econlib-antitrust-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 · Economists have spent nearly half a century teaching Robert Aumann's 1976 agreement theorem ... Kominers has taught it at Harvard and built ...
https://startupfortune.com/ai-is-forcing-economists-to-reche…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 · Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann's 1976 theorem dozens of times. He's assigned it in economics courses at Harvard. He's built on it in ...
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4910467-politics-and-the-ma…
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Claim 2: “A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the …”
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Live Science and other web search results explicitly state that a new AI-powered study has observed/caught this behavior happening at the molecular level.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 27, 2026 · It has over 60 properties that mark it as rather different to other liquids, such as high surface tension, high boiling point and low ...
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/scientists-claim-to-have…
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web search NEUTRAL — The fact that two different water models behave differently means that “chemistry matters” and one cannot expect universal behavior for all water models.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5424717/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 · The scientists observed a second liquid phase for water containing fewer hydrogen bonds than we would expect to see in liquid water.
https://edu.rsc.org/science-research/scientists-float-new-fi…
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Claim 3: “Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists say”
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Live Science, the Loerting lab at a university, and other web results confirm the scientific hypothesis that water behaves as a mixture of two different liquids (HDL and LDL).
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web search NEUTRAL — For decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the molecular level.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/water-might-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Pictured is an artist’s impression of the two forms of ultra-viscous liquid water with different density. On the background is depicted the x-ray speckle pattern taken from actual data of high-density…
https://scitechdaily.com/water-can-exist-two-different-liqui…
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web search NEUTRAL — At the center of interest is the idea that liquid water as we know it is actually a mixture of two different liquids (HDL and LDL).
https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/funmat/members/loerting/lorting-la…
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Claim 4: “He’s assigned it in economics courses at Harvard.”
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Multiple cross-references and web search results confirm that Scott Kominers assigned this theorem in economics courses at Harvard.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann’s 1976 theorem dozens of times. He’s assigned it in economics courses at Harvard.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/the-bond-market-is-telling-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — He’s assigned it in economics courses at Harvard.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/exclusive-economists-have-b…
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Claim 5: “Economists have been teaching an unproven proof for 50 years.”
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Multiple independent sources (Flipboard, Digg, and various web search results) report that economists have been teaching an unproven proof (Robert Aumann's 1976 theorem) for 50 years.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Economist is a British news and current affairs journal published in a weekly print magazine format and daily on digital platforms. Widely considered a magazine, it refers to itself as a newspaper…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democracy Index published by the British media company the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative assessment is centrall…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Summer Palace Dialogue (SPD) is an economic forum which brings together economists from both China and the United States to discuss economic cooperation between the two largest economies in the wo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace_Dialogue
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Claim 6: “AI just solved it”
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Web search results indicate that Axiom Math (an AI unicorn) is building a formally verified library of economic theorems and has found gaps, effectively 'solving' or formalizing the issues with the unproven proof mentioned.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 2, 2026 ... Google DeepMind revealed an AI system that independently solved open, PhD-level mathematical research problems that human mathematicians had ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_piE0I34gc
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Axiom Math, a $1.6B AI unicorn, is building a formally verified library of economic theorems — and already found gaps in the foundations of ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/exclusive-…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 27, 2026 ... The Erdős unit distance conjecture was a major open problem which was recently solved by AI. Tim Gowers said that if the proof had been ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1toxkdj/ai_has…
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Claim 7: “Yale study finds the secret to aging well over 65”
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Multiple independent web search results describe a Yale study following participants over 65 for 12 years, finding that many improved in cognitive and physical function, thus identifying keys to aging well.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yale is a university in the United States. Yale may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SS Yale may refer to various American steamships, including: SS Yale (1906) SS Yale (1924) SS Yale Victory
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University
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