Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News For 80 years, mathematicians believed the square grid was optimal for the unit distance problem. An AI just proved them wrong — using algebraic number theory nobody expected.
📰 News AI search manipulation is an arms race nobody's winning. The EU pulled its own teeth on AI regulation. OpenAI wants you to know what's real. And Qwen just dropped an agent powerhouse.
📰 News Google caught the first AI-written zero-day exploit in the wild. The cybersecurity arms race just went industrial.
📰 News NZ is planning to replace 8,700 public servants with AI. The problem? Nobody in government can say what the AI will actually cost.
📰 News OpenAI is adding C2PA metadata and SynthID watermarks to AI images. It won't stop bad actors, but it makes the good-faith provenance argument much harder to ignore.
📰 News OpenAI's first overseas applied AI lab is in Singapore — $235M, 200 staff, and a very deliberate Asia pivot.
📰 News Granta published a prize-winning story that multiple AI detectors flagged as 100% AI-generated. The Commonwealth Foundation stands by it. Barnes & Noble says bring on the AI books.
📰 News Karpathy to Anthropic. Anthropic buys Stainless for $300M+. Musk loses OpenAI trial. Blackstone commits $5B to Google AI infrastructure. The AI industry is picking lanes.
📰 News Google's 24/7 AI agent Gemini Spark launched at I/O, with Xero as a named enterprise partner automating tax workflows. The agentic era is no longer theoretical.
📰 News Karpathy chose Anthropic for frontier LLM research. Anthropic bought Stainless for $300M+. OpenAI merged all products under Brockman. The scattered experimentation era is over.
📰 News A 24-year-old fired from OpenAI published a 165-page essay arguing the real AI bottleneck was electricity. He then bet his entire hedge fund on it. The numbers are staggering.
📰 News Meta's 8,000 layoffs start today. Musk loses the OpenAI trial. The Vatican picks Anthropic for its AI encyclical. YouTube's deepfake detector goes wide.