Recent AI-assisted breakthroughs have driven trader sentiment on near-term progress toward the Riemann Hypothesis. In August 2026, an unreleased Anthropic Claude research model raised the unconditional lower bound on the proportion of nontrivial Riemann zeta zeros that are simple and lie on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2%, building on prior work by Levinson, Conrey, and others. OpenAI followed in early October with papers claiming a Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis bound at θ = 7/8, further restricting zero locations, while follow-up arXiv preprints refined related proportions above 67% and 83%. These results represent the largest single advances in decades on this analytic number theory problem but fall short of a full proof. Ongoing AI math experiments and formal verification efforts remain the key catalysts to watch.