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Joseph Howlett / Scientific American:
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and used an internal model to solve it  —  A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
More: Tristan Buckmaster, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, Anima on AI, Wccftech, New York Times, Unite.AI, AIM, and The Algorithmic Bridge
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Wired:
OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough  —  A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.
OpenAI:
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it “cannot rule out that de-identified data derived” from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models  —  Read the paper Link to Lean formalized proof  —  We're sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence …
Madison Mills / Axios:
OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours
Google:
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome  —  AlphaGenome Atlas is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology.  —  VP Science, Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist, Google Cloud
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's path to a foldable phone, the iPhone's biggest design change yet; sources: the memory shortage led Apple to blow past its $1,999 price target  —  Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Google rolls out search result changes in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest quality of service reduction in Search's 29-year history  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide “multiple generations of customized silicon” to help build AWS' AI infrastructure for inference; QCOM jumps ~5%  —  Qualcomm shares rose 4% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services …
Bloomberg:
Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks  —  ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking …
Clare Armstrong / ABC:
Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content  —  In short:  —  The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers  —  Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes “copyright infringement very seriously”  —  It seems the Trump administration doesn't want to tempt a lawsuit from The Tetris Company
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise  —  The new group will be made up of 1,000 forward-deployed engineers  —  Google Cloud and Accenture are the latest companies to bet …
Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability  —  The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic has decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup; a source says the two may still collaborate  —  Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said.
Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com  —  The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com prediction business and take stake in digital-currency exchange
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date  —  Stablecoin issuer Circle agreed to pay $400 million in stock for Singapore-based cross-border payments company Tazapay …
Siobhan Roberts / New York Times:
Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later in September, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems  —  Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
More: Nature and The Hill
Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT  —  OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 percent faster, OpenAI says.
More: OpenAI and TechRadar

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