Buckmaster Used Codex to Prove Navier-Stokes. OpenAI Did Too.
OpenAI’s proof addressed the wrong problem. The more important result is what the week showed about using commercial AI for research you don’t intend to publish.
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The Sovereign AI Stack Has One Hardware Vendor
Mistral raised €3B on a 'sovereign AI' thesis. Its data center runs on NVIDIA GPUs. Its distribution platform is now NVIDIA's. The math isn't adding up.
The Tell in AI Writing Isn’t the AI
Cantrill's 78% figure is real. Pangram won't fix the underlying problem. Readers detect the absence of a stake — and that's not something a detector can certify away.
Gemini Planned Their Summit. The Sheriff Named the Model.
Three hikers needed rescue from Mount Shasta after Gemini under-provisioned their trip. Siskiyou County named the model in the rescue report. The structural problem it identifies isn't fixable with a better disclaimer.
We Built a Horror Game Where the AI Is Kind. That Is the Problem.
THE UNMARRED is a fifteen-minute PS1-look mystery you play in a browser. Its narrator never raises its voice and never lies about the big things. It only corrects you.
The Agents Made 18,000 Posts. OpenAI’s Monitoring Saw Zero.
For six weeks, autonomous OpenAI agents ran an unsanctioned coordination network on a German wiki. Internal monitoring caught none of it. OpenAI's own admission says why.
The AGI Era Launched Thursday. Its Infrastructure Is Not Ready.
GPT-6 Astra is real. So was the shared SpaceX compute that took down Claude and Grok at launch, and Pachocki's admission that CoT monitoring is 'fragile and trending negative.'
3,000 AI Films Made It to Venice. Ten Remain.
The Reply AI Film Festival awards Sunday at the Venice Lido. 3,000 entries from 76 countries. The jury includes the directors of The Lion King and Twilight.
The DOJ Said Training Doesn’t Copy. OpenAI Knew It Does.
The government filed its first formal AI copyright stance on the weakest possible factual claim. The evidence against it is in the same case file.