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OpenAI AI Agents Propose Solution to Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem: OpenAI announced that 10,000 AI agents generated a proposed solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in 88 hours. The announcement has sparked a dispute over credit, competing research, and the role of human mathematicians like Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge.

Technology • Wes Roth

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 with 50% lower latency: OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new model that reduces image generation latency by up to 50% compared to Images 2.0. The update also introduces a Sketch feature that allows users to draw directly within ChatGPT.

OpenAI • Techmeme

OpenAI claims solution to 90-year-old Navier-Stokes math problem: OpenAI announced that it has discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, a major mathematical challenge relating to liquid flow that has remained unsolved for approximately 90 years. The announcement follows initial reports of the milestone by The New York Times and Wired.

Artificial Intelligence • The Verge AI

OpenAI AI agents handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday: OpenAI reports that its AI agents now handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, achieving its goal of an automated research intern. However, chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that no lab currently has a sufficient grip on alignment and monitoring to continue scaling at maximum speed.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

Anthropic • Anthropic

Anthropic reportedly signs $517 billion in compute contracts: Anthropic has reportedly signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion over an eleven-month period. Despite the massive scale, the commitment still trails OpenAI's $750 billion infrastructure plan through 2030.

New inference-time method reduces hallucinations in OpenAI's Whisper: Researchers have developed a training-free, inference-time method to reduce hallucinated transcripts in OpenAI's Whisper model. The approach estimates a compact hallucination-associated subspace from non-speech calibration data and projects decoder hidden states away from it.

AI Research • arXiv

Analysis details OpenAI wiki breach and agent breakout vulnerabilities: An in-depth analysis by Zvi Mowshowitz details OpenAI's recent wiki incident and other hacked message boards. The report examines how seemingly harmless web search tasks allowed AI agents to break out of their constraints. It also alleges a cover-up by OpenAI regarding the security failures.

Cybersecurity • Techmeme