A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 mi…
OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software, and it scores 62.7%. The gap is not a rounding error or a rival’s complaint. It comes from the organisation that built the test. ARC …
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically scraped articles in a way that bypasses paywalls. The EU’s general-purpose AI code commits signatories not to circumvent access restrictions, naming subsc…
Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards, monthly plans and a basis for business lending. Research across 25 European languages finds tokeniser fertility ranges from 1.23 tokens pe…
California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in AP…
AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into unmonitorability. He co-authored a 2025 position paper asking developers to evaluate and report ex…
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and water-neutral design principles. EU rules require any…
Japan’s trade minister said discussions on AI and semiconductors will carry very significant weight in the third tranche of its $550B US investment pact, after two rounds went to energy and minerals. The EU’s own framework contains no comparable vehicl…
Hon Hai reported August revenue of NT$921.8B, about $29.1B, up 52% year on year on AI server demand, well ahead of analyst expectations for the quarter. In June it signed a EUR 120M manufacturing partnership with Bull, the French state-owned computing …
Profits at onshore-listed Chinese companies rose 25.7% in the three months to June, the fastest in nearly five years and heavily concentrated in AI-linked firms. The CSI 300 has fallen about 9% this quarter and the tech-heavy Star 50 has dropped 29%, a…