What's New in AI

Vals AI claims Claude Fable 5.1 solved Urquhart's 373-year-old Cyphral Distich in 44 minutes. No expert has verified it — the mechanism is the real story.

One anonymous source says OpenAI's Astra uses 'recurrent depth' to reason partly in latent space. No confirmation yet — and the chief scientist pushed back.

Tesla holds its Cybercab launch event in Austin today as video shows the robotaxis flooding city streets — with approval and safety questions still open.

A viral r/singularity post: Anthropic's internal emails, quoted in the class action, show Claude Max 20x delivers ~6x usage of Pro — not 20x. Max 5x: ~3.5x.

Two 'infinite AI slop' livestreams launched in 48 hours: levelsio's Infinite Slop and open-source Slop TV, chat-driven and built on an unverified speed claim.

Istanbul police flew loudspeaker drones over the Fatih district, ordering drinkers to leave. Viral clips split viewers between praise and surveillance fears.

Runway's Solaris renders interfaces as live video, frame by frame, with no HTML, CSS, or JS underneath — and every benchmark so far is vendor-reported.

Samsung pre-sold ~70% of its memory to Microsoft, Google and Nvidia through 2031 at a fifth of spot HBM prices. Price fixing? We examine the two-tier economy.

GPT-5.6 reportedly broke the record on large gaps between primes, saving a log log log n factor. Nobody has verified the proof — and that gap is the real story.

An unverified X post claims OpenAI and Anthropic are mass-buying Mac minis and Mac Studios. Could it squeeze M5 Ultra Mac Studio price and availability?