Honestly it took me a bit to process. An AI system did the full analysis end-to-end hypothesis, clustering on 978 bursts, wrote the paper. Not assisted. Actually did it. Found a subpopulation at 9.2 sigma, interprets it as two emission regions in a magnetar. Passed 3 rounds of peer review at ApJ before the editor paused production over disclosure, not the science itself. MNRAS, A&A, arXiv all passed too, each for separate reasons.
What got me: they openly say 2 of 6 robustness tests didn't pass (alt algorithms, permutation). Right there in the methods. That's not what you do if you're trying to hide something. Honestly don't know where I land on the AI as author thing.
