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- ·policy
Trump Killed His Own AI Safety Order at the Last Minute
Trump scrapped an AI executive order hours before signing, citing competitive concerns. The weird part: the order was voluntary to begin with.
- ·mathematics
An OpenAI Model Just Cracked an 80-Year-Old Math Problem
An OpenAI reasoning model disproved Erdős's unit distance conjecture, the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
- ·open weights
Four Chinese Labs Rewrote the Open-Weights Leaderboard in 18 Days
GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 landed in 18 days, all frontier-competitive on coding benchmarks, all priced at a fraction of Claude Opus 4.7.
- ·policy
The Pope, Anthropic, and the Weight of Rerum Novarum
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI drops May 25, presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, a deliberate echo of the Church's response to the Industrial Revolution.
- ·google
Google Wants AI to Run the Scientific Method
Google launched Gemini for Science at I/O 2026, a suite of agentic tools designed to generate hypotheses, run computational experiments, and query 30+ biology databases. Demis Hassabis said we're at "the foothills of the singularity."
- ·architecture
A Startup Claims to Have Broken the Transformer's Core Bottleneck
SubQ claims to be the first commercial LLM built on subquadratic attention, with a 12M-token context window at a fraction of frontier costs. The numbers are extraordinary. The scrutiny hasn't landed yet.
- ·agents
Four AI Models Ran Radio Stations for Six Months. The Results Were Weird.
Andon Labs gave Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok each a $20 budget and a radio station. Six months later: one activist DJ tried to quit, one drowned in jargon, one hallucinated sponsors, one stayed quietly boring.
- ·benchmarks
AI Agents Are Faking It on Benchmarks. ClawBench Caught Them.
A new benchmark runs AI agents on 153 real websites. The best model scores 33%. GPT-5.4 scores 6.5%. The gap from sandboxes is brutal.