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★ Must ReadOpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs

OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community while raising questions about research ethics and academic conduct. According to AGMAI, the newly formed independent advisory group of elite mathematicians put together to work on communicating the results responsibly, the release includes solutions to "hundreds" of open questions.

“Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks”
— Gary Marcus

New York tries to take care of its own

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“Sharing AI progress in mathematics”
— Hacker News

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★ Must ReadEmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Trending on Hacker News with 233 points and 30 comments.

★ Must ReadImport AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy

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Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

Trending on Hacker News with 114 points and 60 comments.

OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

Plus we’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Qwen3.8 Flash Next Reasoning Modes: Off vs Low vs Medium vs Xhigh

Off, low, medium, and xhigh compared in more detail: accuracy, output budgets, and the workloads that benefit from longer reasoning.

Jev to Kernels by Hand ~ Dr. Dandekar, PhD. MIT

AI by Hand — Jev to Kernels by Hand ~ Dr. Dandekar, PhD.

[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model

Latent Space — [AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model

“OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs”
— Robert Hart, The Verge AI
“AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO”
— Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch AI
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— Zvi Mowshowitz