Codex scraped a math union website and leaked the 2026 Fields Medal winners
By scraping the International Mathematical Union (ICM) website with OpenAI's Codex, the 2026 winner list was exposed before the official announcement. The is math's top honor, awarded every four years to mathematicians under 40.
The leaked list reportedly includes two Peking University alumni. It appears the ICM site had winner information present ahead of the public reveal, and an the pages picked it up.
Key points
- Codex, an , was used to scrape the ICM website
- The 2026 winner list leaked ahead of the official announcement
- Two Peking University alumni are reportedly among the winners
- The leak surfaced as the automatically read through webpage content