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3 AUG 2026 · Gary Marcus

First, abstracting from all the words in my long analysis on OpenAI Astra yesterday, the overall point was that Astra may not be the breakthrough that OpenAI wants you to think it was.

2 AUG 2026 · Hacker News · 32 pts · 27 comments ↗

OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid due to a mistake in the proof. AI summary

1 AUG 2026 · Simon Willison

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that included "again we are not…