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Alexander Wei / @alexwei_:
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad  —  1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO). [image]
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro  —  When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models  —  Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build ‘smarter’ models
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral  —  Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the company after a video of him canoodling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral.
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
A look at the Dor Brothers, a video production studio that has gained over 100M views across platforms by creating viral subversive videos using only AI tools  —  President Trump leans forward in a limousine, takes a long puff from a cigarette and flashes a wide grin.
Will Knight / Wired:
A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming  —  A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage.  The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.
New York Times:
How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims”  —  Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray.

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