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Gowers reports testing ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on open problems from Mel Nathanson's additive number theory paper. The model improved an exponential upper bound to quadratic for sumset diameter. In two hours. Not retrieval of existing solutions. A genuine research contribution. 669 HN points. Gowers warns this has serious implications for PhD training: the "gentle problems" that traditionally serve as entry points for students are now trivially solvable by AI. I don't know what a math PhD looks like in three years, but it doesn't look like this year's.
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On July 24, Justice Amit Bansal denied ANI Media interim relief against OpenAI, holding that LLM training on ANI's content falls under Section 52(1)(a)(i) "private or personal use, including research." The court separately held that retrieval-augmented outputs don't infringe u...
A new CASP report, based on interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members in northeast Nigeria across 2025-2026, documents institutionalized use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek for attack planning, IED design, weapons troubleshooting, and post-attack rev...
As of June 26, per Releasebot, OpenAI removed GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT, migrating existing conversations to GPT-5.5, and rolled Codex Remote to general availability on all plans. You can now start or resume coding work on a connected Mac or Windows host directly from the mobile ap...
Two data points that tell the same story. First, Value Add Pulse counts four frontier launches in 30 days: Gemini 3.5 Pro, Grok 5, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, plus open-weight GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7. The model-layer moat compressed from quarters to weeks. Second, TechCrun...
OpenAI lost 1.5 million subscribers in 48 hours after rushing a Pentagon classified-network deal hours after Trump blacklisted Anthropic. ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%. Claude hit #1 on both iOS and Android US app stores. OpenAI VP Max Schwarzer defected to Anthropic. Sam Alt...
Version 2026.8.1 shipped September 1 with contributions from 933 developers across more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the project, after a seven-week cycle against a usual pace of 106 releases in 230 days. The install flow now auto-detect...
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