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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

8 September 2026 at 17:02
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.

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Related to a set of equations about fluid mechanics, the “Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem” has long ranked among the great unsolved problems in mathematics.

OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

8 September 2026 at 17:02
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.

© Philippe Plailly/Science Source

Related to a set of equations about fluid mechanics, the “Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem” has long ranked among the great unsolved problems in mathematics.

A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click

8 September 2026 at 12:50
An attack discovered by A.I. researchers could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.

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Researchers at Calif, a security company, recently built a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could run roughshod across WeChat, the popular messaging platform.

Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.

8 September 2026 at 05:04
For the company’s new artificial intelligence system to take off, it will need plenty of support from the makers of popular apps on Apple’s phones.

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The new Siri is a revamp of Apple’s A.I. technology.

Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety

8 September 2026 at 08:10
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.

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Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, who has announced the founding of the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI).

Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

4 September 2026 at 20:18
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.

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The New York Times claims in a lawsuit that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed on publishers’ copyrighted material by using their articles to train artificial intelligence.

Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI

4 September 2026 at 13:19
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.

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A memorial for the victims of a deadly mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February.

The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

4 September 2026 at 12:12
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

4 September 2026 at 11:15
Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

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Hjalmar Wijk, METR chief scientist, left, and Ajeya Cotra, METR researcher, at their research center in Berkeley, Calif.

Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO?

3 September 2026 at 05:02
When Anthropic goes public in a blockbuster offering, which investors will profit? The answer says a lot about how much start-up investing has changed over the years.

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Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit

2 September 2026 at 14:48
The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.

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The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023 in a landmark copyright case.

Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.

31 August 2026 at 21:10
Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

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OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing

27 August 2026 at 13:55
In an open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others said that a wave of A.I.-enabled cyberattacks was coming and that organizations and governments needed to prepare themselves.

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Sam Altman of OpenAI, which has joined more than 100 tech companies in publishing an open letter warning of a wave of cyberattacks driven by artificial intelligence.

After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade

24 August 2026 at 14:07
Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.

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Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, which is a vocal supporter of open-source artificial intelligence.

OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow

18 August 2026 at 10:14
The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.

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A workshop about artificial intelligence at Walla Walla High School in Washington in 2023. ChatGPT will turn on its teen mode if it detects signals that the user is younger than 18, OpenAI said.

Nvidia to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion

17 August 2026 at 17:13
The data center, one of the world’s largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI.

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Workers at the construction site for a data center in Piketon, Ohio, that will be built by a subsidiary of SoftBank and leased to OpenAI.

Another OpenAI Executive, Denise Dresser, Departs the A.I. Start-Up

13 August 2026 at 14:47
Denise Dresser, who was previously the C.E.O. of Slack, is the latest in a string of executives to leave the artificial intelligence start-up.

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Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, is one of a number of executives to leave OpenAI in recent months.
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