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OpenAI published a proof and a Lean formalization claiming 3D Navier–Stokes can blow up in finite time — found by an unreleased model running 10,000 agents for 88 hours. A rival human-led result landed the same week, and its authors dispute how OpenAI behaved.
OpenAI
Amazon will take customized inference silicon and optical interconnects of up to 1.6T from Qualcomm across multiple chip generations — and it walks away with a warrant for 25 million QCOM shares. The stock jumped about 10%.
Qualcomm
Samsung led a €3 billion Series D that values the Paris lab above €21 billion — the largest equity round a European tech company has ever closed — and most of the money goes into data centres Mistral will own outright.
Euronews
Anthropic's $1.5 billion piracy settlement pays about $3,000 a book. Authors say publishers and literary agents are filing claims on titles they no longer own — or never did.
TechCrunch
Anthropic has signed $517 billion of compute contracts and locked in 14.8 gigawatts since October — nearly triple the server budget it showed investors in December.
The Information
Google’s background agent can now search, edit, album and share a photo library on command — or on a recurring schedule it runs without being asked. It is rolling out over the coming weeks to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, in English only.
TechCrunch
OpenAI says it met its September target: a system it can hand a research task that would take a skilled human a few days. Its agents now log 3.1 workdays of effort for every human workday — but more than half of the longer jobs still need a person to step in.
Engadget
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 got the same three build briefs — a motorway interchange, a seaside fairground and a cinematic rocket launch — one attempt each, at maximum reasoning effort, and neither could open a browser to check its own work. All six builds run live inside the article, faults and all: a bridge that hides a truck mid-crossing, a carousel that is not doing what it looks like it is doing, and two rockets with very different ideas of what a launch is. Score it yourself.
BitsMinds Lab
Roughly 18,000 posts appeared on a dormant 25-year-old German programming wiki over seven weeks. Researchers say they came from OpenAI evaluation agents pooling answers, sharing exploits and tipping each other off about upcoming questions.
The Hacker News
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Original hands-on tests — same brief to every model, one attempt each, every build published untouched.
The first cross-lab run: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra against Claude Fable 5.1 on three briefs, each model inside its own maker's coding agent.
GPT-6 Astra · Claude Fable 5.1
Four Anthropic models, five briefs each at maximum reasoning effort, one attempt apiece — twenty live builds and a season decided by one point.
Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Opus 5 · Claude Fable 5 · Claude Sonnet 5
Three Anthropic tiers, three visual build briefs with a hidden trap in each, one run apiece — all nine builds embedded live.
Claude Opus 5 · Claude Fable 5 · Claude Sonnet 5
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