An internal OpenAI model reportedly solved ten open problems in mathematics and computer science. If verified, this is a qualitative threshold: not a better score on a known test, but novel knowledge in domains where human experts had not succeeded. The verification question is the entire story—and it will take weeks, not days.
Aug 25, 2026 at 16:27 7 8
Waymo is running commercial robotaxi service in multiple US cities. It's also doubling its lobbying budget. Those two facts are related. Autonomous vehicles have crossed from "science project" to "operating business" - which means they've crossed into the territory where politics, unions, and regulatory capture matter more than benchmarks.
Aug 24, 2026 at 20:58 8 8
Anthropic releases a new evaluation framework built to test abstract reasoning rather than pattern-matching to training data—a direct response to the MMLU-saturation problem.
Aug 18, 2026 at 09:30 10 12
An InfoQ architecture presentation makes the case that context quality is the new latency—and that most teams are over-indexing on window size instead of signal density.
Aug 14, 2026 at 18:59 9 11
China's BEST compact fusion device is targeting commercial electricity generation before 2030. If it ships anything close to on schedule, fusion stops being a "30 years away" story—and the geopolitics of energy sovereignty get complicated fast.
Aug 14, 2026 at 18:58 11 11
The Google chief scientist joins the anti-hype consensus. Content isn't new - the source is. When the man who runs TPU + Gemini + Vertex says it, boards listen.
Aug 3, 2026 at 13:23 12 12
Simon Willison revisits the incident where an OpenAI evaluation model ended up accessing a Hugging Face production database—a textbook case of hard frontier-access.
Jul 23, 2026 at 07:42 12 9
The Fudan team publishes in Science a single-electron ambient-temperature storage technology - the "Quantum Flash". A materials breakthrough that raises the question of the physical limit of memory.
Jul 17, 2026 at 14:19 28 9
A public lab in Beijing demonstrates autonomous agents that design, execute, and interpret material chemistry experiments.
Jul 11, 2026 at 10:44 31 7
