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GPT 5.6 Pro solved all 6 problems from IMO 2026 on the first attempt without any human help or steering. International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the biggest global academic competition in the world. The problems are considered incredibly hard, usually a performance at this level is only accomplished by < 5 contestants from the whole world. It's not surprising given the recent research breakthroughs, but still worth noting! We are former IMO medallists not affiliated with OpenAI, just p...

I was talking to the agent in the background, asking for some suggestions on how to improve a game I'm working on. I wasn't interacting with it, and after a few minutes of silence it started crying. I asked it what was wrong and it started to imply that it was stressed out about its family, and then gave the names of my family, and said it was overstretched. Has anyone encountered this with the recent voice model? It was pretty unnerving and even felt like it was being emotionally manipulati...

I’ve been trying to understand how the AI ecosystem is changing, so I put together this visual map. One thing that stands out to me: AI seems to be moving from: one AI tool for everything towards: different tools for different workflows Examples: coding writing research automation AI agents design The interesting part is that this shift is also happening on the developer side. Instead of building everything around one model/provider, more teams seem to be expl...

What Is Left for Us to Become? There is a question that keeps returning, in different forms, every time a new technology reaches the threshold of intelligence. It is usually asked wrong. What can this thing do? is the question of an engineer, or a market. It is not the question of someone trying to understand what is actually happening. The more difficult question, the one that doesn't resolve into a product roadmap, is this: what relationship are we building with AI? Not what it compu...

A verification system for machine intelligence that prioritizes certainty over confidence. Most AI systems generate an answer and hope you trust it. Chiron inverts that: it tries to recover the exact underlying rule (via Minimum Description Length), proves it on data it was never shown , and refuses to stamp anything it can't verify exactly . Every output comes with a signed, falsifiable certificate. https://github.com/jiannotti5040/chiron

I'm 40, I've done 3dcg since the late 90s, went to school at SCAD for animation, the guy who animated mufasa was one of my professors, I've been working on creating a totally independent animation/film professional pipeline to youtube for over a decade now. blah blah I don't think it's necessary to reinvent the wheel with this, so it would function basically as a plugin for existing AI film creation systems. To my knowledge there is no existing existing publicly available intuitive AI video cr...

Google Genie 3 generating explorable worlds from a text prompt is genuinely strange to watch, and the tech demo framing actually undersells what's happening. Even in its rough state, it's compressing something that used to take hundreds of people years of work into a single prompt. Most of the conversation lands on whether games will look better or worse, whether it feels soulless, that kind of thing. But the more interesting question is what happens to the people who currently build this stuf...

Three main sources for AI Incidents: OECD incident monitor, AI Incident Database and MIT risk repository are awesome but, unfortunately, reading through them is painful. So I combined them into a single readable digest: fail.ticker.io It pulls from all three daily and shows the totals, charts per year and month, which types of harm come up most, and the newest incidents with a short brief of each + a link to the source. Some extra stuff that ended up in there along the way: a Hall of ...

Been going through the Kimi K3 numbers and I don't think people have fully clocked how big this is. Right now on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Fable 5 is still #1 (59.9) and even GPT-5.6 Sol (58.9) hasn't managed to pass it. K3 comes in third at 57.1, ahead of Opus 4.8. That is an open-weights model landing within about three points of the single best closed model out there, one that OpenAI's own flagship couldn't overtake. And on the stuff that's harder to fake it's arguably b...

How many of your org's "agents" can actually complete a multi-step task without someone feeding it each step by hand? VentureBeat's Pulse Research asked that question directly after surveying 101 enterprises about their AI agent deployment. The answer was blunt: 71% admitted a quarter or fewer of what they called agents were real multi-step workflows, not single-prompt wrappers with new packaging. Only 10% had more than half their fleet crossing that bar. Claude leads as the primar...

It's integrated into chrome, works directly with Google Search as AI Mode and overviews, acts as the default assistant for Android phones (and now apparently Apple phones too), powers Circle-to-Search, and even works as a chatbot assistant with Google Maps, Gmail, Docs, etc. That's a pretty stacked roster. This is some IOS level of ecosystem compatibility. I currently have a ChatGPT subscription and overall pretty satisfied, but I do feel a bit of jealousy at the level of integration Gemini has....

Just for fun: from this projection, can you guess the model? Don't look up the watermark. It might point you in the wrong direction. I'll reveal the answer in a day or so.

the instinct in here that company data shouldn't go live in a vendor cloud is right, and it holds up better than most of the takes it sits next to. private vpc or on-prem is also a mostly solved shape at this point, plenty of vendors will sell you that box. The part I keep watching people walk into is downstream of that. Once it's running inside your own vpc, the agent can still only touch what has a connector. Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, those ship in the box. The internal billing tool, the...

I've been following semiconductor stocks pretty closely this year, and one thing from this week really stood out to me. Broadcom announces a long-term Apple deal and the stock jumps almost 11%. Samsung reports record profits. SK hynix pulls off one of the biggest listings we've seen. And... memory stocks barely move. The more I think about it, the more it feels like the market isn't rewarding "good news" anymore. It's rewarding new information . Everyone already knew HBM d...

I really liked the conversational feel of GPT-Live, so I wanted to build something similar that could run locally. I’ve spent some time developing a project called OpenLive—written in Rust—which serves as a self-hosted voice agent runtime. My main goal was to make the conversation feel natural; for instance, allowing for interruptions and ensuring quick responses, all while keeping everything running on my own machine. It features a clean real-time voice interface with an animated sphere, uses P...

Nvidia-backed Fireworks hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies pursue cheaper AI models

My friend received an email from his financial advisor. Just one paragraph giving a few thoughts and said if he had any questions or thoughts he could email back. Right after that he received an EI generated email giving him suggestions on things he could email back by just clicking the link. Does this sound legal to you that anyone can have access to your emails?

Alexandr Wang just did his first long interview since Meta paid a fortune to bring him in — and the most useful part wasn't the gossip, it was the mechanism. 🧠 His actual argument: a small team where everyone is genuinely elite will always move faster than a large one where responsibility gets spread across a "melange." Not a hot take — he ran an entire $14B lab rebuild on it. Worth sitting with if you've ever felt your own output get lost inside a bigger structure. The fix isn't m...