This is almost certainly the case. I very much doubt that anyone there of any importance in the decision-making process around this actually cares about the math, just the headlines they can get from pushing it out.

I am certainly experiencing what seems like some mania or computer addiction from these technologies. I’ve never been able to produce such results as I can today. I lose sleep staying up late working on it (though to be fair this has always been an issue). But the volume of work is so hard to audit. It makes it difficult to make flawless results. That doesn’t excuse the mode of publication. They could have had humility in their announcement. “We are seeing some interesting results and seeking community validation.” Maybe they did, I did not read their full announcement. But that would have been the right move if they can’t verify something fully.

I've tried reading one of these, it was an unreadable mess with some strong smells. It might have something to it, but it'd take a decent amount of labor to validate it, especially with how many references to other papers it had.

Yeah imagine being in a company where everyone is suffering from AI psychosis and fully bought in. They give you unlimited tokens and tell you that you are a genius and can solve anything. You’d publish all sorts of made up slop papers.