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Anthropic published the most striking AI-math result in weeks, while a Hugging Face–EleutherAI project found a cheap fix for one of open training data's quietest problems — and Hong Kong's biggest broadcaster decided it wants in on the compute buildout. An unreleased research version of
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Three days after OpenAI said it could not rule out "Critical" cyber capabilities in its next model, it is doing the opposite of slamming the door: shipping a more permissive cyber model to a vetted circle of defenders — and framing it as the only way to close a
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For as long as there has been modern science, acceptance at a peer-reviewed venue has been the certificate of trust: experts read it, it passed, so it is true. That certificate just received its first large-scale independent audit — and the auditors were AI agents. This week, three separate
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Two stories today about AI moving into specialist territory: a finance agent that claims to beat every frontier model on tax, and a Y Combinator startup betting agent swarms can find materials for cooler chips. ProCap Financial's Silvia, a finance-only AI agent, claims it outperformed every frontier
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Meta is back in the open-weights game, and Mark Zuckerberg is picking a fight with the closed-model labs while he's at it. Meta opened the weights for Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter dense model the company calls one of the highest-performing of its size — small
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The chatbot wars get the headlines, but the clearest evidence of China's AI lead is showing up on a different leaderboard: video generation. Nine of the world's ten best text-to-video models are now Chinese, and the analysts watching say the lead points somewhere bigger
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OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to restart base-model scaling after two years of squeezing capability out of post-training — while Apple quietly tests Chinese memory chips to survive the AI-driven supply crunch. OpenAI is reportedly pre-training its largest model ever, a project codenamed "Doug" that
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China's model race is shifting from benchmarks to balance sheets: Zhipu's founder confirmed a new flagship, GLM-5.3, is coming, and Goldman Sachs just raised the company's full-year revenue forecast by 35 percent. Zhipu's founder has confirmed that GLM-5.
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A quiet weekend for frontier model drama, but the research feeds delivered two releases worth your time: Tencent's agentic framework for generating whole 3D worlds from a sentence, and Google DeepMind opening up its cyclone-forecasting models. Tencent Hunyuan's WorldClaw turns a single text prompt into
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Another classic open problem has fallen to an AI-assisted counterexample — this time in harmonic analysis, and with a proof that was, by the authors' own account, painstakingly human-verified afterward. Mathematicians have disproved the Heil–Ramanathan–Topiwala (HRT) conjecture — a 30-year-old open problem about whether a
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DeepSeek's flagship agentic benchmark claim just survived its first outside audit — and the numbers held up to the decimal point. An independent, fully public evaluation run reproduced DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731's 82.7% score on Terminal-Bench 2.1, matching the lab's claim exactly.
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The US government is betting open-weight AI can become strategic infrastructure — and the first model in its flagship science program is a trillion-parameter bet. The Department of Energy launched the Genesis Open Models Initiative, a program to build open-weight foundation models for science, with Arcee AI'