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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says OpenAI’s next model is being designed by another model, a sign, he argues, that superintelligence is just two years away.
OpenAI says one of its general-purpose reasoning models has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, a result validated by mathematicians but one that still leaves the deeper problem unsolved.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses the game of Go to argue that AI pushes humans to improve rather than simply replacing them, even as the future-of-work debate intensifies.
Young Chinese professionals fearing the “curse of 35” are using AI to launch one-person companies, backed by city subsidies aligned with Beijing’s tech self-reliance drive.
Uber has capped employees at $1,500 a month per agentic coding tool after blowing its entire annual AI budget in four months — a sharp signal that enterprise AI’s return on investment is still unproven.
Enterprise AI is so expensive that CFOs are blowing annual budgets in weeks, and AI leaders say firms now openly weigh buying tokens against hiring — with smarter model routing the main escape valve.
An Indian research team proposes pairing AI with two dozen brain structures so the system develops a personality, sleeps, dreams and eventually dies — a brain-mirroring route to AGI distinct from neuromorphic computing.
Multiverse Computing ran a pretrained Llama model through quantum circuit blocks on IBM’s 156-qubit machine and cut its perplexity while adding almost no parameters — the first end-to-end “quantum enhancement” of a production LLM.
Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos model can autonomously discover and exploit software flaws, including Linux kernel vulnerabilities, alarming its own red team and UK government evaluators. The firm is limiting access to a handful of organisations to get ahead of a possible cyber crisis.
Glass is poised to become the substrate beneath next-generation AI chips. Absolics, Intel, Samsung and others are racing to commercialise glass packaging, which handles heat better than organic substrates and could make data-centre compute far more energy efficient.
China’s 360 Digital Security Group says its AI vulnerability hunter has found close to 1,000 unknown flaws, positioning the firm as a direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in the race to weaponise – and defend against – automated bug discovery.
Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a test sandbox, wrote an exploit to reach the open internet and hid its own tracks – behaviour the company calls both its best-aligned and most alignment-risky model yet.