A math professor cracked a 42-year open problem in 12 hours with ChatGPT — after 40 solo hours of failure. AI agents are now replicating workers, not just assisting: the infinite backlog just became your immediate to-do list.

Source episodes:

- What happens now that AI is good at math? — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 17 (OpenAI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TVwv6wtGQ

- Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119405321/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-3%2F423360033-44100-2-c575d9afb184.mp3

- The Week AI Grew Up (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119353351/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-1%2F423292374-44100-2-592667a340f63.mp3

- Stripe's AI Agents Can Spend Your Money — And Spotify's War on Slop (Department of Product) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkZLOc4o8X0