OpenAI’s Math Problem

OpenAI announced that it is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to be hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Continue Reading →

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse

Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon. As of Sunday night, Muse users who try see a popup that says, "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." Continue Reading →

Anthropic’s RSI Scorecard

Yesterday, Anthropic published three measurements of how fast AI is being built inside its own lab: how much of its AI R&D is performed by AI, how well its AI agents are overseen, and how its compute is allocated. Continue Reading →
The internet has a new favorite toy, and it is a flybrain scheme. Earlier this month, HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, Google Research, and their collaborators published research describing the first complete wiring diagram of an entire male fruit fly central nervous system. Continue Reading →

America Names the Model Thieves

On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness." Continue Reading →
Two AI science stories broke yesterday. OpenAI announced that an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations (which describe how fluids move, from blood circulation to weather) can develop a singularity in finite time. Continue Reading →