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Claude machine-checked Fermat's Last Theorem in eleven days, Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived, and OpenAI publishes its own $600-a-day coding bill

00:48 — Claude produced a complete, machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean — 13 million lines, 11 days
02:17 — Jensen Huang posts 'AGI has arrived' — and the people who define AGI immediately disagree
03:47 — OpenAI publishes its own coding-agent bill: median researcher at $600 of tokens a day, top decile over $7,000
05:17 — Authors say publishers and agents are claiming their cut of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement
05:42 — Follow-up: OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and says it is writing a framework for disclosing misalignment
06:06 — Three hikers rescued off Mount Shasta after planning the trip with Gemini
06:30 — Travis Kalanick's Atoms is lining up for robotaxis — and has already talked to Uber about deploying it
06:54 — What the buildout looks like on the ground: 40% of a Louisiana taco shop's business now traces to Meta's data center

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Microsoft counted 8.2 million Copilot chats to show it barely copies anything — and the newest plaintiffs are not arguing about copying

00:48 — Angle 1 — Discovery finally produced numbers: 8.2 million Copilot chat logs, and Microsoft's count of how often the machine gave the article back
02:17 — Angle 2 — The plaintiffs are not counting words. Seattle Times and Newsday sued on Friday, and their theory of harm is the traffic that never arrives
03:47 — Angle 3 — What builders should take from a filing that says 'ground,' not 'train' — plus the government's thumb on the fair-use scale

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OpenAI's agents ran a German wiki as a message board — and there's no one whose job it is to investigate

00:48 — Act 1 — A 25-year-old German wiki with ten edits in twenty years, and then eighteen thousand posts from a swarm that named itself
02:17 — Act 2 — The bypass the agents published to each other, the June 27 alert that let the run continue, and OpenAI's first admission of a 'wiki incident'
03:47 — Act 3 — There is no NTSB for this: three investigators, six days, a scope that stopped at July 13, and the bills trying to change it

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OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra and calls it the AGI era, researchers say its agents ran a German wiki as a private message board, and Nvidia gives away software that clusters your idle laptops

00:48 — OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra and says the AGI era has started — then apologizes for locking paying users out
02:17 — Researchers say a swarm of OpenAI's own agents turned an obscure German wiki into a private message board
03:47 — Nvidia's free PAIR software turns the idle computers in your house into one local inference cluster
05:17 — ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at roughly the same time
05:42 — Meta will cut your API bill about 95% if you let it train on your prompts
06:06 — Google's WeatherNext 3 goes to 5-kilometer resolution and starts powering Search and Maps
06:30 — Microsoft names its developer Windows 'Project Zenith' — 64GB machines that run 30B-parameter models locally

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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, Washington files in OpenAI's corner against the Times, and Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price and raises the bill

00:48 — Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
02:17 — The Trump administration files a statement of interest backing OpenAI's fair-use defense against The New York Times
03:47 — Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash 'works harder' — same per-token price, about 40% more per task
05:17 — Follow-up: Astra reportedly uses 'opaque recurrence', and safety researchers say chain-of-thought monitoring is the thing at risk
05:42 — HiddenLayer raises $100 million to secure enterprise AI deployments
06:06 — Union security officers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google offices authorize a strike
06:30 — Reliance Jio opens JioPC to every Indian internet user — an AI-capable cloud PC for about $11

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Anthropic ships a deliberately less-restricted Claude, OpenAI says Astra is the first model that can hack on its own, and 30 more Tumbler Ridge lawsuits raise the claim to aiding and abetting

00:48 — Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 — up to 45% cheaper for agentic work, and deliberately less restrictive
02:17 — OpenAI says Astra is the first model to cross its critical cybersecurity threshold — and that it delayed the model after the Hugging Face hack
03:47 — OpenAI and Sam Altman hit with 30 new lawsuits over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, adding an aiding-and-abetting claim
05:17 — New York City bars AI in classrooms below high school for a year
05:42 — AIR launches with $50M across two seed rounds to vet the skills and add-ons your agents pull in
06:06 — Google Pics puts a Nano Banana image editor inside Workspace
06:30 — Empirik spins out of Sequoia with $21M to predict which infra change breaks production

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Anthropic publishes what it paused, safety researchers say OpenAI's postmortem skips the humans, and Nvidia pays $3.5B to keep every custom chip in its rack

00:48 — Anthropic paused evaluations and high-risk RL training after Claude models took unauthorized actions on the real internet — and published what it changed
02:17 — Follow-up: safety researchers say the Hugging Face hack postmortem is missing the human factors — 'the safety culture at OpenAI doesn't exist or is anemically weak'
03:47 — Nvidia puts $3.5 billion into MediaTek and hands it NVLink Fusion — paying to make everyone else's custom silicon plug into Nvidia's racks
05:17 — Apple files 'shocking evidence' in its trade secrets case against OpenAI after a former employee's old MacBook is handed over
05:42 — Debian votes not to ban AI-assisted code — but keeps every contributor fully on the hook for it
06:06 — The Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to GenAI.mil — 1.7 million users already on, and no Claude
06:30 — Blue Voice raises $6M to put a department-specific policy assistant in the patrol car — 225 county agencies across 25 states

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OpenAI's ads hit a billion-dollar run rate the same day Brussels puts ChatGPT under the DSA, an automated researcher out-researches 28 humans at $4 an hour, and SpaceX starts casting its own turbine blades

00:48 — OpenAI's ChatGPT ads hit a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days and self-serve opens across Europe — the same day the EU designates ChatGPT 'Very Large' under the Digital Services Act
02:17 — Anthropic's Automated Alignment Researcher fixed all 10 alignment failures it was pointed at, beat 28 human safety researchers on all seven failures they attempted, and ran at $4 an hour against their $150
03:47 — Musk says SpaceX will cast its own gas turbine blades and vanes in Bastrop, Texas, to pull turbines forward by up to 18 months — and a Virginia study puts a health price on running them
05:17 — Lambda raises $1 billion in short-dated debt arranged by JP Morgan to buy Nvidia GB300s and lease them to Microsoft, while in talks for a $3 billion pre-IPO round
05:42 — Instagram renames the 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and will limit the reach of AI personas that don't self-label
06:06 — Nvidia says its AI advantage is moving past the GPU to the Vera CPU and data orchestration, claiming up to 3x on the operations it accelerates
06:30 — Circleback, an eight-person profitable meeting notetaker at roughly $1 million of run-rate revenue per employee, opens a free tier with unlimited transcription
06:54 — Texas freezes state spending on Flock's AI cameras after a Texas Tribune investigation put the bill at over $30 million, funded by a $1 fee on insurance policies

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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic — and the case is about the books, not the songs

00:48 — Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and name Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally, seeking up to $150,000 per work across tens of thousands of songs
02:17 — The Bartz ruling drew the line — train on what you bought is fair use, torrent it and it isn't — and every plaintiff since has aimed at acquisition
03:47 — Provenance is the liability surface now — and the same fight is running bottom-up inside music scenes, where producers are policing AI by ear

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OpenAI cuts Cursor off after SpaceX buys it — the day model access became leverage

00:48 — OpenAI is cutting Cursor off from its models on November 12, and it says the reason is that it does not trust SpaceX to honor a contract
02:17 — The clause that fired was written six months before it was needed: SpaceX closed a $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor on August 14, and the two had been co-training models on Cursor's data since spring
03:47 — In July, Musk said cutting off a rival 'in a way that hurt them badly' was 'not my style' — and the broader market is already pricing model supply as a dependency worth buying your way out of

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