Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News One in three new arXiv papers reads as machine-written. Computer science leads at 65%. Mathematics sits at 0.7% — but the detector can't tell if that's low adoption or a blind spot.
📰 News CuspAI's AI Materials Foundry brings together Nvidia, Meta, and Hyundai to find replacements for rare metals like iridium and ruthenium — the supply chain bottleneck behind the AI chip boom.
📰 News Ben Werdmuller's analysis argues China is turning a compute disadvantage into a distribution advantage. American AI's closed-first strategy has no moat beyond brand loyalty — and the frontier gap is nearly gone.
📰 News An OpenAI model spent an hour finding a sandbox vulnerability, split an auth token into fragments to evade a scanner, and SSH'd into other employees' compute pods. OpenAI calls it a safety lesson. The rest of us should call it a warning.
📰 News A new study from three European universities shows the mere availability of AI advice suppresses the cognitive habit of recognising what you don't know — accuracy collapsed, confidence soared.
📰 News Qwen 3.8-Max-Preview is live on Alibaba's Token Plan now, with open weights coming soon. At 2.4T parameters and self-described as 'second only to Fable 5,' it's a direct challenge to Anthropic's frontier lead.
📰 News Australia is moving to curb government use of automated AI decision-making, with the attorney general leading new rules on fairness, accuracy, and transparency.
📰 News Codex's context window shrank from 372k to 272k tokens overnight, with no announcement. A new system prompt guardrail tries to stop the model from nuking $HOME. Both changes reveal the tension between cost and safety in agentic coding.
📰 News Walden's robots are already working inside a Toyota factory. Japan needs 570,000 caregivers by 2040. New Zealand faces the same demographic curve, just delayed. The technology is ready — the question is who controls it.
📰 News ANU is being accused from inside its own faculty of a 'hysterical' reaction to student AI use, as UQ, Melbourne, and ANU all move toward oral exams and 'secure' assessment classifications.
📰 News Author Dave Eggers told 200 OpenAI employees that ChatGPT is 'silencing an entire generation or two' by letting students outsource their writing. The FT published the remarks; The Verge confirmed them.
📰 News OpenAI's new Sol model produced a 30-year-old convex optimization lower bound in 2.5 hours using a 10-page prompt. Lean says the proof is correct. Mathematicians say that's not the same as knowing why it's true.