Matthias Bastian

OpenAI's new AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, has produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture using 64 subagents working in parallel.

Key Points A Brown University economics professor discovered suspected AI cheating in his class when take-home exam scores came in unusually high, raising immediate red flags about the authenticity of student work.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says AI could create more jobs than it eliminates. Altman wrote he's "pretty sure" AI has been net job-creating so far.

Meta has pulled a controversial feature from its new Muse Image model after widespread criticism. The feature let users generate AI images of other people by @-mentioning their public Instagram accounts, no consent needed, just a username. It was on by default, and anyone who didn't want their photos used had to manually opt out through Instagram's settings

S&P Global views OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and has downgraded Oracle's rating from "BBB" to "BBB-," one notch above junk status.

Anthropic added an integrated browser window to Claude Code. Claude can now open, read, click, and type on web pages directly inside the app.

One in four social media posts over 250 words is AI-generated, according to a Pangram analysis. LinkedIn tops the list with 41 percent of long-form posts flagged as AI-written.

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 available to subscribers longer than planned. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use starting today.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls out AI labs for banning distillation. Distillation is the process where smaller models learn from the outputs of larger ones.

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched the startup Oak Lab in Toronto with Khurram Javed.