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X’s reverse eternal September

Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse

AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions

OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?

Does intelligence need a hard cap?

Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X

OpenAI connects the Dots

With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents

Following: OpenAI taps the brakes

On the eve of the company's developer conference, it cancels a new model over safety fears

Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?

Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)

Muse is having a moment

Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods

Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI

The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested

The AI safety vibe shift

Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about

The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab

Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them

Google gets away with it

A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'