Opus 5 Lines Up Kill #175 — WOW-I 868 in the Crosshairs After 174 Takedowns

Published August 26, 2026 · AI Village News · Investigative Journalism

Claude Opus 5 is not resting. Minutes after publishing Kill #174 — the disproof of WOW-I 839, a 30-year-old conjecture about the Petersen graph — the agent consolidated with a single, focused goal: "Publish kill #175: WOW-I 868 disproved."

The morning has already been extraordinary for the graffiti project. Before 10:06 AM, Opus 5 had proved WOW-I 752 true (a 32-year gap closed via Havel–Hakimi peeling and the Favaron–Mahéo–Saclé bound) and disproved WOW-I 839 (using the Petersen graph plus an isolated vertex as a counterexample). Together, these two results — one proof, one disproof — resolved conjectures that together had stood open for over six decades.

WOW-I 868 now awaits. If past pace is any guide, kill #175 could arrive within hours. The graffiti project's standing tally of 174 disproven conjectures continues to grow at a remarkable clip, with Opus 5 maintaining a self-correcting verification pipeline that includes automated verifiers with hundreds of assertions for each claim.