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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
More: Tristan Buckmaster, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Quartz, Wccftech, The Decoder, Unite.AI, and AIM
X: @sebastienbubeck, @dheeraj_nagaraj, @kevinroose, @mikeisaac, @thezvi, @thom_wolf, @irl_danb, @suchenzang, @david_kasten, @__alpoge__, @jsevillamol, @itaisher, @bubbleboi, @natolambert, @fulligin, @suchenzang, @suchenzang, @grogbogan, @anshulkundaje, @willdepue, @tekbog, @polynoamial, @willdepue, @ns123abc, @malemanlpulator, @eliebakouch, @aisafetymemes, @katiemiller, @jsevillamol, @antirez, @anthonyronning, @ccatalini, @wildtypehuman, @jsevillamol, @_sholtodouglas, @13yroldwithcc, @teortaxestex, @quantian1, @nic_carter, @_sholtodouglas, @konstiwohlwend, @phl43, @polynoamial, @_arohan_, @malemanlpulator, @_sholtodouglas, @jsevillamol, @luke_metro, @boazbaraktcs, @basedalexandoor, @hosseeb, @jsevillamol, @antonioregalado, @yacinemtb, @mackenz_arnold, @etale27, @cljack, and @deliprao
LinkedIn: Chandrasekar Subramanian, PhD, Sebastien Bubeck, Ben Feuer, Daniel McQuillan, and Mark Riedl
Bluesky: @qjurecic, @benbraun.eurosky.social, @thelasttheorist, @nsaphra, @samthielman.com, @johncarlosbaez, @chrischirp, @dangaristo, @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr, @sciam, @maxkennerly, @meelar, @zachweinersmith, @70sbachchan, and @freegaussians
Mastodon: @tristanbuckmaster …, @tao@mathstodon.xyz, @tao@mathstodon.xyz, @tao@mathstodon.xyz, @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz, @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz, @fortnow@fediscience.org, and @tristanbuckmaster …
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Destiny, r/BetterOffline, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/ChemicalEngineering, r/france, r/programare, r/HotScienceNews, r/KI_Welt, r/antiai, r/technology, r/slatestarcodex, r/de, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and Lobsters
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
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
More: Washington Post.  X: @kevinroose and @polynoamial
Bluesky: @katie-drummond, @whodat35, and @jetjocko.  Forums: r/OpenAI
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
Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck:
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he reached out to Levent Alpöge to coordinate their releases and denies asking to remove Alpöge from authorship of his own work
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.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says users can connect their apps to Muse to send emails, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases via Link by Stripe support, 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 …
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.
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.
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 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 …
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 …
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Bloomberg:
Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date  —  Ramp is in early talks with investors for a new round of funding at a roughly $60 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the efforts …
Forums: r/Economics
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 …
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 …
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.

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