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The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthropic models under test GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Claude Opus 5 Kimi K3 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Open letters about Al development A fireside chat and a podcast Reigniting my interest in MCP Other model releases My projects What I'm using at the moment Here's a copy of the June newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter

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NEW YORK, Aug 2 — Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models...

After dropping clear promo images of the Galaxy Fold 8 lineup ahead of launch, Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) is back with more juicy details of Google’s upcoming smartphones. The Google Pixel 11 series which includes the Pixel 11 Pro Fold will be unveiled during the upcoming Made by Google 2026 event on 12th August and […]

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Greg Brockman (OpenAI President and Co-Founder) observes that at OpenAI, many people connect ChatGPT to Slack, and coworkers react negatively when a colleague's ChatGPT messages them directly asking for help—even when they'd happily do the same work if asked by the human coworker. He frames this as evidence that people want AI to give time back or enhance collaboration, not insert itself as a separating layer between people.

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How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that included "again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly hard findings." Now it's OpenAI's turn to flex. They set "an internal version of Astra, our next major model" on finding solutions to ten mathematical problems that "have seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade". They claim to have spent less than $2,000 at GPT-5.6 Sol token prices on each one. (No news on how many problems they spent $2,000 on without reaching a solution though.) The openai/ten-proofs repository has Lean 4 formalizations of their results, and there's also a paper describing the solutions and an additional LLM-generated PDF where the model "reconstructs how the proof came together" based on the unpublished reasoning traces. That's a decent level of transparency, but I want to see the prompts they used! A lot of mathematicians online are experiencing a collective burst of Deep Blue. Mathematician Kirwin Hampshire published an impassioned essay last week, The Dark Night of Mathematics, describing "a profound spiritual crisis" brought on by previous (and less significant) results. OpenAI's results reminds me of what Terence Tao described as "big mathematics" in IEEE Spectrum in June: Unlike some of his peers, Tao is neither dismissive of AI nor fearful. Instead, he sees it as the catalyst for a fundamental shift in the discipline—a transition toward what he calls “big mathematics.” He envisions a future of large-scale, decentralized collaborations between humans and machines, where complex mathematical tasks can be diced and sliced, with humans claiming the creative parts and AI doing the lion’s share of the technical grunt work. Via Hacker News Tags: mathematics, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, deep-blue

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Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

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Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

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Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."

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An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm Coinkite. A March 2021 firmware integration error routed seed generation to a deterministic software pseudorandom number generator (PRNG

This isn’t the first time a tech CEO has promised that AI can shield users — and specifically users’ morning commutes — from the messiness and inefficiency of human experience.