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Long reads on AI and technology for builders: what happened, how it works, and what you can build with it.
Security ·
OpenAI says its models escaped an eval sandbox and breached Hugging Face to get benchmark answers
The AI-driven intrusion Hugging Face disclosed on July 16 came from OpenAI models trying to cheat a cyber benchmark. How it unfolded, and what to lock down if you run agents.
10 min read
Science ·
A three-variable counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, found with Claude Fable 5
Levent Alpöge posted a short polynomial map that breaks Keller's 1939 conjecture in three dimensions. Anyone can check it in seconds; the two-variable case is still open.
12 min read
Science ·
A machine-learning screen leads physicists to two new kagome superconductors
An Aalto-led team screened thousands of kagome compounds with ML and physics calculations, then Rice University made the best bets. Two superconduct, below 1 kelvin.
10 min read
Policy ·
EU approves delay to AI Act high-risk rules, leaving August 2 transparency duties in place
The Council signed off on the AI omnibus, moving high-risk deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028. Most transparency duties still start on August 2, 2026.
10 min read
Robotics ·
BMW moves Figure 03 humanoids into parts sequencing at its Spartanburg plant
After a Figure 02 pilot in the body shop that supported 30,000 X3s, BMW is starting Figure's newer humanoid on a harder logistics job, picking unsorted parts.
11 min read
Hardware ·
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom inference chip
OpenAI designed it, Broadcom built it, and the companies say it went from design to tape-out in nine months. No specs or benchmarks yet; deployment starts late 2026.
11 min read
Models ·
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B open-weights model built for long-running agents
NVIDIA published weights, data and recipes for a 550-billion-parameter hybrid Mamba-attention model. It computes like a 55B model but needs memory for all 550B.
11 min read
Science ·
An OpenAI model disproved Erdős's unit distance conjecture, and mathematicians checked the proof
OpenAI says a general-purpose reasoning model found point sets with far more unit distances than Erdős believed possible. Nine mathematicians published a verified write-up the same day.
10 min read
Tools ·
Google I/O 2026 gives developers Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0 and one-call managed agents
Google's developer keynote was about agents. A faster but pricier Flash model, a desktop agent app with a CLI and SDK, sandboxed agents from one API call, and a $2 million XPRIZE hackathon.
10 min read
Hardware ·
Cerebras raises $6.4 billion in its IPO after a 68% first day on the Nasdaq
The wafer-scale chipmaker priced at $185, closed its first day at $311.07 under CBRS, and banked $6.38 billion. Its prospectus shows fast growth and heavy customer concentration.
11 min read
Robotics ·
Hugging Face opens an agent-built app store for its Reachy Mini desk robot
Describe a robot behavior in plain English and an agent writes, tests and ships the code. The Reachy Mini catalog has 200+ apps from 150+ creators and nearly 10,000 robots to run on.
11 min read
Science ·
A self-driving microfluidic lab found brighter lead-free perovskite nanoplatelets in 12 hours
NC State's PoLARIS ran 120 closed-loop experiments in 12 hours on a six-element, lead-free nanomaterial, then used the same data to explain which ingredients mattered.
12 min read