OpenAI’s October 6, 2026 release of over 700 AI-generated math papers, including a formal proof that the Riemann zeta function and Dirichlet L-functions have no zeros with real part exceeding 7/8, has driven fresh trader attention to substantive Riemann Hypothesis progress. This quasi-Riemann result, verified in parts by Lean and praised by experts such as James Maynard as the field’s strongest advance in a century, extends prior bounds and eliminates certain Siegel zeros while generalizing across related functions. Follow-on human papers have already tightened the constant slightly. The development underscores how large language model capabilities in formal proof generation are accelerating analytic number theory, though full resolution of the critical line conjecture remains distant and subject to independent verification.