OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features r…
OpenAI says an internal model proved that 3D Navier-Stokes can develop a singularity in finite time, using about 10,000 agents over 88 hours. It described the result on a press call and had not published the proof. Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge,…
Cognition raised over $2bn at a $48bn valuation, up from $26bn in May. Run-rate revenue rose from $492m to almost $900m over the same period. Both rounds price the company at roughly 53 times run-rate revenue, so the multiple did not expand. Cognition …
Growth hacking was supposed to be dead. The term had a good run. Sean Ellis coined it in 2010, and for a decade it described the scrappy, slightly unholy tricks that built the consumer internet: Airbnb piggybacking on Craigslist, Dropbox handing out fr…
Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus, as an advisory partner. His stated contribution is US connectivity from Silicon Valley, meaning talent, company connecti…
Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmaker…
Summary Context management for AI-assisted coding has matured into a rich ecosystem: convention files, repository maps, memory banks, and full-blown memory frameworks all compete to keep a coding agent grounded in your codebase. But step outside the te…
DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, free for academic use. Its headline validations came from UK Biobank whole genomes at Exeter and from t…
The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. “We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except i…