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OpenAI reports an internal reasoning model produced new constructions for Erdős's planar unit distance problem that achieve super-linear scaling and refute the 1946 conjecture

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Trump administration closes loophole that allowed O-1 visa holders including advanced researchers at OpenAI to remain in the US during green card applications

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DeepSeek makes its 75% discount on the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API permanent, keeping rates at one-quarter of prior levels for input and output tokens beyond the prior May 31, 2026 cutoff.

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Reiner Pope builds a multiply-accumulate unit from logic gates and covers systolic arrays, FPGAs, ASICs, and brain architecture in a timestamped blackboard lecture

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DeepSeek makes its 75% discount on the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API permanent, keeping rates at one-quarter of prior levels for input and output tokens beyond the prior May 31, 2026 cutoff. — The 1.6-trillion-parameter model offers 1M-token context and fixed per-million pricing.

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Elizabeth Barnes, AI safety researcher and founder/CEO of METR, says development is likely on track for AI systems capable of causing human extinction or permanent disempowerment possibly within the next few years — Gary Marcus quoted the post in full agreement.

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Anthropic releases initial Project Glasswing report showing its unreleased Mythos Preview models found over 10,000 vulnerabilities and blocked a $1.5 million fraud attempt while outperforming GPT-5.5 on exploit benchmarks — Anthropic will expand access to more US and allied government partners first.

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Trump administration closes loophole that allowed O-1 visa holders including advanced researchers at OpenAI to remain in the US during green card applications — Applicants must now pursue consular processing abroad with years-long waits.

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Reiner Pope builds a multiply-accumulate unit from logic gates and covers systolic arrays, FPGAs, ASICs, and brain architecture in a timestamped blackboard lecture — Dwarkesh Patel shared the lecture spanning 0:00:00 to 1:11:49.

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Elizabeth Barnes, METR founder and CEO, says experts are not on top of the AI situation and that assumptions of control from outside the field do not hold — Nate Soares quoted and supported the post on AI oversight gaps

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Thomas Dimson, who worked on OpenAI's Sora video generation model, announced his departure from the company after 1,000 days. — Dimson previously authored Instagram's core recommendation algorithms and founded Global Illumination.

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MIT CSAIL PhD student Ryan Bahlous-Boldi introduces Vector Policy Optimization, a reinforcement learning method that maximizes vector-valued rewards to preserve distinct objectives in LLM post-training — VPO raises pass@k scores on LiveCodeBench over GRPO baselines.

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Antigravity releases UI and connectivity updates to version 2.0 that highlight the Open IDE button and add instructions for connecting to the IDE on Windows machines — New releases fix Windows IDE issues and reset weekly usage limits.

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Hyperagent from the team behind Airtable launches a cloud platform for autonomous AI agents that accumulate skills across sessions and offers $10 million in credits to 500 founders — Platform already runs in 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies.

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Google tests experimental Gemma 4 app running fully offline on Pixel hardware with prototype glasses in remote wilderness without connectivity — Google Gemma and DeepMind engineers shared the demonstration online.

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Gemini Omni performed native video edits on the 1896 Lumiere film of a steam train, converting it into versions with a bullet train, LEGO styling, Muppets, and a time traveler while preserving reflections. — Wharton associate professor Ethan Mollick shared the 56-second example.

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Researchers dispute Reflection AI's positioning as America's open source AI lab citing its empty model repository with zero public releases — Repository shows no models datasets or code after years of operation.

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Anjney Midha, founder of AMP PBC, recommends AI labs require teams to read Edward R. Tufte’s “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” before releasing charts — Replies propose training AI models on the same principles.

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Grok Build, an AI tool for web development, entered early beta with updates improving aesthetics and functionality plus plans for a recursive self-improvement loop — Boyuan Zheng posted the announcement, which Elon Musk quote-tweeted.

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DHH says GPT-5.5 shows substantial gains on complicated agent work, reversing version 5.2's lag behind Opus and marking a recovery for OpenAI amid rising competition — Jason Liu quote-tweeted the post and Adam.GPT reposted it.

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Google's AI Overview responds to single-word verb queries such as 'disregard' and 'ignore' with command acknowledgments like 'Message received! Consider it forgotten — The pattern appeared in multiple X posts and a TechCrunch report.

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Meta reassigns more than 1,000 software engineers from advertising teams into data labeling roles for AI model training ahead of expected layoffs — Some teams shifted 20-40 percent of developers to annotation work.

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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says AI systems will contribute to a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within 12 months and design their own successors by the end of 2028 — He also forecasts AI-run companies generating millions in revenue within 18 months.

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OpenAI maintains a GitHub repository at openai/skills that supplies extensions for its Codex coding tool and enables automatic capability detection from targeted prompts — Jason Liu on the Codex team outlined the installation process.

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OpenAI reports an internal reasoning model produced new constructions for Erdős's planar unit distance problem that achieve super-linear scaling and refute the 1946 conjecture — The output qualifies for submission to the Annals of Mathematics.

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OpenAI solved the unit distance problem in mathematics, prompting discussion on whether the work used informal chain-of-thought reasoning or neurosymbolic tools such as Lean — Attention now turns to AI progress in social science domains.

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Modal raises $355 million in Series C funding at a $4.65 billion valuation led by General Catalyst and Redpoint after crossing $200 million in annual recurring revenue — Its platform powers AI training, inference, and sandbox workloads for Anthropic, Meta, and others.

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Microsoft canceled its internal licenses for Anthropic's Claude Code after token-based billing made costs unsustainable even with unlimited Azure resources — Uber exhausted its full 2026 AI budget in four months.

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Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen3.7-Max closed-weights model that sustains 35-hour autonomous kernel optimization runs with over 1,000 tool calls and scores 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — Qwen3.7-Max supports 1 million token context via Together AI.

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Cursor releases Composer 2.5 coding agent scoring 62 on the Artificial Analysis index while posting 10 to 60 times lower costs than Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 — Internal test routed all company chats to the model for two days.

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Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, asks what problem people most hope AI will solve in the future — Replies suggest curing diseases and automating research.

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Turbopuffer reached a $100 million annual run rate in March, 19 months after hitting the $1 million mark, while remaining profitable on less than $1 million in total funding — Its object storage database first powered Cursor and now serves Anthropic and Notion.

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Stanford researchers release paper 'A Bitter Lesson for Data Filtering' showing large models improve without data filtering in high-compute data-scarce regimes — Work targets abundant compute and limited data pretraining scenarios.

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Dan Shipper's analysis of Every finds the company automated nearly all feasible tasks with AI agents yet grew its human workforce from 4 to 30 employees since GPT-3 — Report projects stronger effects as AI systems advance.

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ClickUp announces 22% workforce reduction to restructure around a 100x AI-driven organization with AI-centric workflows — CEO DJ Curfew says the business has never been stronger.

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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model scores 47.1 percent on the APEX-Agents AA leaderboard to take first place, surpassing GPT-5.5 by nearly 10 points. — It also delivers four times higher output token speed than Gemini 3.1 Pro.

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Cursor, the AI code editor from Anysphere, doubles usage limits for the next month for new users invited onto its Teams plan — CEO Michael Truell announced the offer on X alongside new feature references.

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GoodfireAI shares research showing sparse autoencoders tile and shatter curved neural manifolds in large models rather than linear directions, recasting unsupervised discovery as an inverse Ising problem — Visualizations map features across a manifold spanning 1800 to 1998.

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Codex releases Appshots for its Mac app, letting users press Command-Command to capture screenshots and text from open windows including off-screen content and attach them to the active thread — Codex Thursday no. 6 update also adds goal command and remote use while locked.

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ChatGPT adds a direct integration with Microsoft PowerPoint through a new app that lets users generate slides, query deck content, and apply edits without leaving the application — Built by developer Ryan Brewer at chatgpt.com/apps/powerpoint.

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OpenAI enabled a locked use feature for Codex that permits the system to control Mac applications from a connected phone even when the device is locked and the screen is off — It requires an Apple authorization plug-in for macOS sessions.

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Hark raises over $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion post-money valuation to scale its AI foundation models and custom hardware — Round led by Parkway Venture Capital with NVIDIA and AMD participating

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Antigravity tripled the rate limits for Gemini models across all paid tiers and reset weekly Gemini quotas for users — Update covers every subscription level including 3.5 Flash.

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President Trump postponed a planned executive order on AI and cybersecurity, cancelling a White House signing ceremony with major tech CEOs amid internal administration disagreements — The order would require labs to share advanced models with the government.

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Figure AI runs a 200-hour livestreamed warehouse demo of F.03 humanoid robots autonomously sorting 249,560 packages with Helix AI models — Brett Adcock shared initial footage of 30,160 packages handled in 24 hours.

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Pangram Labs analysis flags AI-generated text in three 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional winners plus the 2025 overall winner and a Granta-published story — Literary foundation and Granta maintain the entries are human-written.

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Aleksander Madry, a machine learning researcher at OpenAI and MIT professor on leave, announced his departure after nearly three years heading preparedness and safety efforts — He was reassigned last summer to a role focused on AI reasoning.

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OpenAI President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman states that the model alone is no longer the product as replies highlight required components like post-training control and access layers — Discussions note few venture-backed efforts will survive.

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OpenAI will provide $2 million in tokens to every startup in the current Y Combinator batch in exchange for equity — Sam Altman presented the offer at a Y Combinator event.

2d|599.3k1.8k617

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SpaceX is hiring world-class engineers and physicists for its SpaceXAI team and states that no prior artificial intelligence experience is required — Elon Musk directed applications to ai_eng@spacex.com with three bullet points.

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LeRobot releases LeRobot Humanoid, an open robot-learning platform centered on a bipedal robot assembled for approximately $2,500 using 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components — Platform supplies hardware designs, software, and simulation tools for full robot development cycle.

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CODA reparameterizes memory-bound operations such as norms, RoPE, residuals, and SwiGLU to execute as part of GEMM epilogues in transformer blocks — CuTeDSL implementation reduces kernel launch overhead on GPUs.

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Grok Build version 0.1.214 rolls out with X search integration and significantly faster web search along with fixes for Windows PowerShell rendering and keybinding errors — Full rollout is planned by end of day.

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AI Security Institute published a report on May 21, 2026, assessing oversight mechanisms for advanced AI systems against rapid capability gains and identifying degradation pathways. — Report section records disputed advantages of discrete token reasoning.

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