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An OpenAI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture in discrete geometry
On May 20, OpenAI announced that an internal reasoning model independently disproved a major unsolved conjecture in discrete geometry — the planar unit distance problem, first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. ## The problem The question: how many pairs of dots can sit exactly one unit apart in the plane? For nearly 80 years,… Continue reading
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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to build a team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research
Andrej Karpathy announced on May 19 that he’s joined Anthropic — starting a team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pre-training research. He’s working under pre-training team lead Nick Joseph and started this week. ## The career arc Karpathy co-founded OpenAI, left in 2017 for Tesla (where he led Full Self-Driving and Autopilot), returned… Continue reading
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Google ships Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026: 4x faster than 3.1 Pro and tuned agentic-first
Google opened Google I/O 2026 yesterday with Gemini 3.5 Flash — a frontier model that combines reasoning with agentic task execution. The headline: 4x faster output tokens per second than other frontier models, while beating Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks. Gemini 3.5 Pro is in internal testing now, with public availability… Continue reading
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Anthropic opens the official Claude Code plugins directory with Anthropic Verified badges for high-trust extensions
Anthropic just opened claude-plugins-official — a curated directory of high-quality plugins for Claude Code and Claude Cowork, managed directly by Anthropic. The marketplace ships built-in to every Claude Code install. ## What’s inside Two top-level directories: `/plugins` for internally-developed Anthropic plugins (code review, SDK helpers, language server integrations, external-service connectors), and `/external_plugins` for third-party submissions… Continue reading
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OpenAI launches Deployment Company with $4B from TPG, Bain, and 17 others — buys Tomoro for 150 forward-deployed engineers
OpenAI just spun out the OpenAI Deployment Company — a majority-owned subsidiary that drops specialized engineers directly inside enterprises to build complex AI systems. Launched with $4 billion of initial investment at a $10 billion pre-money valuation. ## The cap table 19 global investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators are in. TPG holds the lead… Continue reading
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OpenAI gives every Maltese citizen a free year of ChatGPT Plus in first country-scale partnership
OpenAI signed its first country-scale deal: every Maltese citizen and registered resident now qualifies for free ChatGPT Plus access for a full year, gated behind a government-managed AI literacy program. ## How it works Eligibility runs through Malta’s online identity system. After completing a free online course called AI for All — developed by the… Continue reading
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Richard Socher’s Recursive Superintelligence exits stealth with $650M from Nvidia, GV
Recursive Superintelligence came out of stealth on May 13 with $650M raised at a $4.65B valuation. Under 30 employees. Nvidia, AMD Ventures, GV, and Greycroft all wrote checks. That’s roughly $22M per head before they’ve shipped a thing. What they’re actually building Not a product yet — a San Francisco research lab with a thesis.… Continue reading
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Gemini Spark leaks 5 days before I/O: Google’s agent might buy things without asking you first
Google’s next AI agent got pulled out of Google app beta 17.23 on May 14, five days before I/O 2026 opens. It’s called Gemini Spark. Internally it was “Gemini Agent” until someone in marketing presumably decided that sounded too robotic. What Gemini Spark actually does Spark is Google’s pitch at the “everyday AI agent” —… Continue reading
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Anthropic Agent SDK Metered Credits (OpenClaw Reinstated): June 15 splits your Claude subscription in two
Anthropic spent May 13–14 rewriting the deal for every developer running agents on a Claude subscription. Starting June 15, anything programmatic — Agent SDK, claude -p, Claude Code GitHub Actions, and third-party agents like OpenClaw — leaves your usage pool for a separate monthly credit. What the credit pool does Pro gets $20/month. Max 5x… Continue reading
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Mistral Cybersecurity Model for European Banks (Anthropic Mythos Rival) lands as ECB sounds the alarm on Mythos attacks
The timing is almost too perfect. On May 13, the ECB publicly warned eurozone lenders that Anthropic’s Mythos — the agentic model that auto-discovers zero-days at machine speed — is already being used to probe them. The same day, Bloomberg reported Mistral is in talks with European banks to ship a rival they can actually… Continue reading
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