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OpenAI claims a next-gen model cracked a Millennium Prize Problem → Navier-Stokes has sat unsolved for about 90 years and is one of seven problems with a million-dollar prize. A swarm of roughly 10,000 agents spent 88 hours on a model stronger than GPT-6 Astra and produced a proof that 3D fluid flow can break down in finite time. They also formalized the argument in Lean. Read more here →
Meta launches Muse, a free personal agent that works around the clock → The new app runs on its own locked-down computer so your files and logins stay off the open internet. A second watchdog has to approve anything that leaves the machine and Muse still asks before it spends money or sends mail. The free plan covers a heavy week of use. Read more here →
ChatGPT’s image tool gets a serious upgrade → Pictures come back faster and look more like the people and objects you asked for. You can sketch the idea by hand or start from a poster template then tweak only the part you dislike. The new version is rolling out across ChatGPT and two fresh models in the API. Read more here →
GPT-6 Astra is incredible for game design. Here’s Manhattan created in Unreal Engine:
The new ChatGPT Image 2.5:
The new iPhone Duo:
Anthropic asks what AI does to jobs and wages by 2030 → A new public tool lets you pick how much work gets automated then compare your forecast with more than 10,000 Americans. The model still shows growth in every path. The line that stuck on X is that paychecks shrink and owning a stake in the upside starts to matter more. Read more here →
DeepSeek’s new Flash model beats the company’s own flagship → V4.1-Flash is built to think more while running leaner and DeepSeek says it wins on quality speed and cost against V4-Pro. Cache use drops sharply which matters for agents that keep rereading context. Prices fall this week and Pro traffic starts moving over on September 14. Read more here →
A new European lab puts AI on the phone instead of the cloud → Desert Ant Labs launched with 18 small models for speech images and text that never leave the device. One can transcribe ten minutes of audio in two seconds on an iPhone. Another cleans a noisy laptop mic in about a second. Read more here →
DeepMind maps every single-letter change in human DNA → AlphaGenome Atlas is a huge public catalog of what each possible mutation is predicted to do. Researchers can browse it in a browser or pull it through an API. Access is open now for research use. Read more here →
ChatGPT puts 16 plugins in front of small business owners → The new shelf covers invoicing scheduling and the other chores that eat a founder’s day. It is live in the plugin directory now. The pitch is simple: stay on the business and let the chat window handle the busywork. Read more here →
