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The piece walks through Logo's structure, showing how programmers define new procedures using 'to' and 'end' and combine simple shapes like squares into more complex ones like flowers and gardens. It notes that user-defined procedures behave identically to built-in primitives, so there's no visible distinction between them once written.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning, accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of recklessly racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards. Hours later, another Anthropic safety researcher publicly stated there is more than a 10% chance AI could eventually kill all humans, highlighting internal unease even as both companies pursue major funding and IPO plans.
Sam Altman responded to accusations of plagiarism following a dispute over competing mathematical proofs related to the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations. He said OpenAI's team, including Sebastien Bubeck, tried to coordinate a joint release with a rival team that included an Anthropic researcher, Levent, but that Levent refused to communicate. Altman said OpenAI ultimately published independently after being accused of plagiarism, despite the two teams' approaches reportedly differing.
OpenAI says an unreleased AI model produced a proof addressing the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize math problems, completing the work in 88 hours. The proof reportedly identifies a scenario where the fluid-dynamics equations break down mathematically, though researchers stress this doesn't mean real fluids like water would physically behave that way.
The piece revisits a 2009 essay musing on why intellectual acknowledgment that a theory is wrong doesn't translate into the same urgency as a real anomaly demanding explanation. It draws on a Zen dialogue about conviction and quotes Eliezer Yudkowsky's fictional 'beisutsukai' story about physicists who failed to overturn quantum mechanics despite knowing something was off. The author admits the essay never fully came together but explores the gap between knowing something is wrong and having the drive to fix it.
ASML is developing a larger 12-inch mask format for its next-generation High-NA EUV lithography systems, letting them print chips as large as those made with current EUV tools. The company expects a pilot line by 2031 and high-volume production by 2033, with CTO Marco Pieters saying the shift could boost system productivity by 40% if the industry adopts it together.
OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new image generation model that produces more realistic lighting and textures, generates images roughly 50% faster than before, and can edit single elements in a photo without disturbing the rest of the image. The update adds a sketch-to-image tool, built-in poster and flyer templates, transparent background support, and improved preservation of faces and details from reference images across multiple edits.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's first foldable iPhone will be named the iPhone Duo and will support the Apple Pencil. The device is expected to launch in October starting at $2,000 for 256GB storage, with a 2TB option priced around $3,000, in Dark Blue and White colors.
Apple's Surprise and Shine event is set to reveal its first foldable phone, reportedly named iPhone Duo rather than the earlier rumored iPhone Ultra, alongside the expected iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max models. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the device will start around $2,000 for 256GB and reach $3,000 for 2TB, launching around October with Apple Pencil support at launch.
Security researchers found more than 36,000 internet-facing Plex Media Server instances that have not applied fixes for previously disclosed security flaws. These unpatched servers remain publicly reachable, leaving them open to exploitation by attackers.
A federal court rejected claims by rival startup Project Bluebird that X Corp. had abandoned the TWITTER, TWEET and Bird Logo trademarks after Elon Musk rebranded the platform. Project Bluebird had filed intent-to-use applications for TWITTER and TWEET and rebranded its own app from twitter.new to tweet.app following the ruling. The court pointed to X's Apple App Store listing, which still describes the app as 'formerly known as Twitter,' as evidence of continued bona fide trademark use.
Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, former Google DeepMind researchers, have founded Fusionality in Lausanne to build standardized hardware and software for controlling fusion reactors. The company raised $3.7 million in pre-seed funding from Founderful and Playfair, with Felici as CEO and Buchli as CTO.