18+ hour, 5+ min ago   (611+ words) Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming new deluge of achievements By Peter Hall & Joseph Howlett edited by Clara Moskowitz On Tuesday afternoon OpenAI dropped more than 700 manuscripts reporting…...

18+ hour, 35+ min ago   (212+ words) The “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking results, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious By Joseph Howlett edited by Clara Moskowitz It’s been two days since OpenAI’s “slop drop” of AI-generated results on 372 open math and…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (426+ words) AI companies say rivals are ‘distilling’ their models. What does that even mean? Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models’ answers to train cheaper copycats. Here’s how distillation works and why it’s so hard to stop…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (939+ words) What the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack reveals about AI accountability Behind the headlines about AI agents lies a deeper debate over accountability, safety and control. By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (470+ words) A month after resolving one of the six biggest open problems in mathematics, the company says its new internal model has toppled heaps more—this time without the multimillion-dollar price tag By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings The floodgates…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (611+ words) What makes a good AI safety test? “With today’s science we usually can’t show with high confidence that dangerous behavior isn’t there” By Chris Stokel-Walker edited by Claire Cameron Still more examples are coming from inside the AI firms. OpenAI…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (947+ words) Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together. But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others? According to the pioneering American-Canadian developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth, it must meet the following…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (525+ words) Mathematicians have a new bucket list of open questions to chase By Lyndie Chiou edited by Clara Moskowitz As of late September, a few of the problems from the new list have been solved, including some landmark ones. The official…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (263+ words) Project Suncatcher is aimed at testing Google's AI chips in the harsh environment of space By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying Google’s Project Suncatcher lifts off. Google’s first step toward putting data centers in space…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (598+ words) Google’s dream of AI data centers in space gets its first off-world test Project Suncatcher is sending four AI processors into orbit today on a SpaceX rocket to see whether the building blocks of a data center can survive space…...