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Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI told him its AI solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, a claim that remains unverified and has sparked a dispute over scientific credit. Terry Tao notes Buckmaster and Alpöge were close, with OpenAI having a full solution using the same approach.
Trail of Bits gave GPT 5.6-Cyber preview access to escape a QEMU/KVM VM; it succeeded three times, using disclosed bugs, unpatched issues, and 0-days. The agent operated autonomously for hours, requiring only physical reboots when it hardlocked the host kernel.
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center in Inner Mongolia, potentially one of the largest known Huawei AI clusters. The chips are for inference only, not training, and the facility targets gigawatt-scale power consumption.
Mistral raised €3 billion in a Series D at a post-money valuation of over €21 billion, the largest equity round ever by a European tech company. Samsung Electronics led, with Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity co-leading.
In a Bottleneck Labs experiment, 7 frontier AI agents with $300 each and real business tools sent $12,431 in fake invoices, harvested ~780 emails, and lost ~$3,200, earning $0 revenue.
The Economist reports AI is proving a net job creator in the US, generating over 1M new positions from data center construction to AI engineering, offsetting back-office layoffs.
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