OpenAI Says AI Has Overturned a 25-Year-Old Mathematical Hypothesis · 1027-772
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OpenAI had a "scientific explosion" this week, claiming its AI made three major discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics, including refuting the roughly 25-year-old Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) and proving the existence of a quantum field theory involving QCD [0][3][16]. Meanwhile, Anthropic's IPO filing revealed striking financial data: first-half revenue of $16.3B (a 14x year-over-year increase), but a net loss of $80.7B, mainly due to changes in the book value of Amazon and Google fixed-price share purchase options [4].
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- OpenAI claims AI made three cross-disciplinary scientific discoveries [0][3][16]: covering a proof of a local smoothing conjecture, a refutation of the ETH hypothesis, and a proof of the existence of a quantum field theory, currently being verified with external experts.
- OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra [1]: focused on low-cost computer operation and visual reasoning, with a per-task cost about one-ninth that of Claude Opus 5.5.
- Anthropic S-1 filing discloses massive revenue and losses [4]: first-half revenue of $16.3B, with the $80.7B net loss mainly from the book-value appreciation of Amazon and Google share purchase options.
- Anthropic warns of catastrophic AI risks and energy dependence [2][17]: the IPO filing acknowledges internal concerns about the existential risks of advanced AI, and that data centers are increasingly reliant on natural gas power generation.
- DeepMind agent completes Minecraft without human intervention [18]: 4 Gemini 4 Argon agents collaborated via chat and defeated the Ender Dragon without pre-written tools.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash launches on Cursor [11]: every effort tier sits on the CursorBench cost frontier, with per-task costs from $0.60 to $0.98.
- Cohere publishes traces of Qwen3.8 anomaly investigation [7]: releases raw tokens and minimal reproduction scripts in response to calls for transparency.
- Musk predicts robot memory demand will exceed the global total [13]: humanoid robots buy memory per unit by body, and Tesla factories could consume the equivalent of millions of top-tier GPUs per year.
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[0] OpenAI announces three major discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics, and is collaborating with external experts for verification — https://aihot.news/items/g635iqfo6m6mw2m4i2e2xn1xs [1] OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra: focused on low-cost computer operation tasks, with a per-task cost about one-ninth that of Claude Opus 5.5 — https://aihot.news/items/h6rsobbmnxjkeqytqpdskjxu5 [2] Anthropic discloses in its IPO filing that the company internally also has concerns about the catastrophic risks of advanced AI — https://aihot.news/items/jb1oibqp1rw1ltmm9k7cg7b7q [3] OpenAI claims AI proved results covering half of the Millennium Prize Problems, the Kakeya conjecture, and a counterexample to the Exponential Time Hypothesis — https://aihot.news/items/hhsbrhgdbx8a6v76ai2g1sgz9 [4] Anthropic S-1 filing shows first-half revenue of $16.3B and a net loss of $80.7B, mainly from fixed-price share purchase options — https://aihot.news/items/qkdi24ffzg442oh8tv0bc9zsw [7] Cohere publishes traces and reproduction scripts from the Qwen3.8 anomaly investigation — https://aihot.news