Because normal people sympathise more with normal people being ripped off by corporation than they do with privileged people chasing grandeur problems

The mystery is whether AI solved it on its own or just took the final step using a lot of novel work done by a small number of mathematicians who were using AI to test their ideas incrementally. there's a big difference between oneshotting something that performs a very complex task autonomously and doing that very complex task by making hundreds of small iterations.