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Codex Scraped the ICM Website and Surfaced the 2026 Fields Medal Winner List
A curl command generated by OpenAI's Codex pulled the ICM 2026 schedule API and exposed four 'HIDDEN' Fields Medal lecture entries naming Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang — an apparent accidental leak ahead of the July 23 announcement. If confirmed, it would be the first edition with two Chinese-alumni recipients and Hong Wang would become only the third woman to win. The HN thread (128 points) doubles as a case study in agents surfacing unintended data from public front-end code.
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