GPT-5.6 Sol Helps Mathematicians Falsify a 152-Year-Old Maxwell Conjecture

Mathematicians posted an arXiv paper on July 29 showing that GPT-5.6 Sol suggested the key construction that falsifies the Maxwell Conjecture, a 19th-century claim about electrostatic equilibrium points. The result is the first major classical physics conjecture overturned with direct AI assistance and is now circulating widely across the research community.