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| 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 — OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, a potentially historic breakthrough shadowed …
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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 then 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
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| 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 …
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| Wired: |
OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster and Alpöge's prompts and says it spent millions in compute after rumors of Anthropic making progress — A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.| Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck: |
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses — Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more — Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer harms …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf …
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Qualcomm announces a data center infrastructure partnership with AWS, as part of which it issued warrants to Amazon to acquire $4B worth of Qualcomm's stock — Qualcomm shares rose 4% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services … | 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg: |
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion.
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| 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 …
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| 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.| Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ: |
Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code — The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns …
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| 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.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers say Meta ran 350+ ads with CSAM in 2026 so far; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to “nudification” apps from China — Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child …
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| 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 …
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures — Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council, an industry advocacy group, over legislation … | 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
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| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust — The financial technology company is seeking to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank — Block wants to build a bank.| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours — Chime Financial Inc. struck a deal to buy Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, snapping up its longtime partner as the fintech streamlines its operations.| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock — Figure AI pulled the wraps off Index last week. It's a billion-dollar bet on real-world data for robot AI training … | 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
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