1) How do you know the clanker respects the instruction not to search the internet?
2) Jared Lichtman is indeed a mathematician at Stanford University but involved in the AI startup math.inc, which seems more relevant here. Terence Tao is involved in a partership program with that startup.
3) Liam Price is a general AI booster on Twitter. A lot of AI boosting on Twitter is not organic and who knows what help he got. Nothing in this Twitter is organic.
4) Scientific American is owned by Springer Nature, which is an AI booster:
> How do you know the clanker respects the instruction not to search the internet?
You can't, but given that it's a previously unsolved problem, it doesn't seem relevant? (nor are the author's potential biases - the claims are easily verified independently)