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AITogether AI, n8n, and NVIDIA speakers will present at Open Haus Berlin on building with open frontier models, with talks by Riqwan Thamir, Harry Kim, and Zain. The event is held in a digital art museum and includes food, drinks, and discussion of evals.

AIMIT Statistics and Data Science Center director Sasha Rakhlin argues that AI progress is fastest where results can be verified quickly, citing a model reaching gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad a year before models produced new research results. He says departments should reconsider how they reward work, emphasizing question-asking, replication, and disclosure of AI's role in a researcher's contributions. He also urges universities to build shared lab infrastructure that captures failed experiments and tacit expertise.

AIBen Tossell says "slop" is now also used to describe something just made that works, leaving its use to the reader. A reply from @forgebitz argues that much pre-AI code was also low quality.

AIYann LeCun compares AI to the invention of the boat, which reduced the importance of swimming but enabled the discovery of new lands. Kevin Weil highlights the analogy as a way to think about AI's opportunities and changes in mathematics and science.

AICarson Gross argues that programming is fundamentally about solving problems with computers and controlling the complexity of those solutions. He says he struggles to imagine a future in which those skills become less valuable, so he expects programming to remain a viable career despite AI tools.

AILauren Tan (@poteto) posts a short call for people to be far more ambitious. The post gives no specific project, metric, or context.

AIEthan Mollick observes that less than four years after an earlier model's debut, the Pope, leading mathematicians, and the U.S. President are all posting about its direct successor and its implications for humanity. The post does not name the models or specify what the successor does, so no details beyond this are supported.

AIThe Association for Human Mathematics requires members to take three vows opposing AI use in mathematics. Members must not provide technical labor, knowledge, consultation, or publicity to commercial AI companies, and must not publish AI-generated mathematical texts, including papers, referee reports, and lecture notes. Members of its AI-free caucus also must not use AI models in research.

AINVIDIA congratulated CEO Jensen Huang on receiving the National Medal of Science for advancing GPU computing to power scientific breakthroughs. The post also honored fellow honorees Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin.

AILauren Tan argues that with frontier AI agents, anyone can produce code at machine speed, so PR volume now signals productivity alongside impact. She says the bottleneck is trust in agent output, and that higher token costs are worth it compared with hiring many engineers. She frames the engineer's job as building the software-producing machine rather than writing code directly.

AIAllie K. Miller jokes that people obsess over web-based GEO while neglecting "EEO," or email engine optimization. She says she is drafting side notes to AI tools left and right, playfully suggesting email is a channel for influencing AI outputs.

AIArtificial Analysis has released full evaluation results for its Cyber Index, which the post links at artificialanalysis.ai. The post itself gives no models, scores, or other figures, so the details are only available through the linked page.

AIGPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max) ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index at a Cost per Task of $1.77. That is significantly cheaper than other leading models, including Grok 4.7 (xhigh) at $11.67 per task.

AIA 16-year-old hiker, Bryce Vincent Gowryluk, was rescued in British Columbia after route directions from the AI chatbot Claude led him to the base of the Widowmaker Arete, a climbing wall requiring ropes and cams. Rescuers said he was "far off" his intended route to Crown Mountain, and North Shore Rescue had to hoist two members down to lift him out. Search manager Paul Markey warned hikers not to rely blindly on AI for route planning.

AIEpoch AI estimates the AI chips shipped through 2027 could support about 30 to 170 million concurrent frontier-model agents, or nearly 2 billion with cheaper models. Its researchers find the cost of a fixed level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter over the past three years. The newsletter also reports China's semiconductor supply-chain exposure is 2.7 times that of the US.

AILettering artist Jessica Hische designed the M logo for Meta's new AI assistant Muse, a two-day freelance sprint she says paid about $12,500. She said she took the job to cover payroll for her Oakland shops, and the decision drew heavy criticism from fellow designers on Threads.

AIArtificial Analysis and Harvey released LAB-AA v1.1, which credits a legal task only when deliverables pass every rubric criterion with no material hallucinations. Grok 4.7 (xhigh) leads at 9.4%, ahead of Muse Spark 1.3 (max) at 8.9% and GPT-6 Astra (max) at 8.6%, while over 60% of otherwise passing results contained a material hallucination. The sharper reordering appears in the hallucination counts, where GPT-6 Astra averages 0.03 material hallucinations per task against 13.96 for Gemini 3.8 Flash (high).

AIQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon discusses the coming AI smartphone supercycle, arguing phones will not disappear as agents use personal context. He also expects smart glasses to become the largest AI wearable category, and covers Qualcomm's Modular acquisition as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA software and its data center strategy. The conversation, recorded live at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, also covers 6G being designed for AI.

AIGoodfire and PrimaMente report discovering a new class of Alzheimer's biomarkers. They are now opening a global AI competition to find new treatments, called the Alzheimer's Translation Challenge, led by PrimaMente and AlzData.

AINathan Lambert says he is about to discuss how open science can still address some of the hardest problems in AI safety and diffusion. He calls this the most complex engineering problem humanity has undertaken so far.

AIArtificial Analysis congratulated the launch of the ninth annual State of AI report, noting its benchmarks were featured throughout. The report, by Nathan Benaich, covers AI building better AI, world models, physical AI, geopolitics, cyber defense, and 12-month predictions.

AIRobot Entertainment Kombat, founded by Cix Liv, hosted a September 18 San Francisco event where a human fought a remotely controlled robot and lost each match, leaving with a hand injury. The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist, saying the fights were unsanctioned and require approval before any bout involving a human. REK plans a robot deathmatch later this month with remotely controlled bots equipped with weapons.

AIArena is recruiting through its careers page, and @johnnnavent is hiring a designer for its consumer app at arena.ai. The designer role calls for deep consumer experience and work at the frontier of AI.

AIOpenAI is rolling out GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast, which generates tokens up to 8x faster than Sol Standard. On the API it costs $12 per 1M input tokens and $60 per 1M output tokens, and the main post says it is just 1.2x the cost of Astra.

AIAmong models with a Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate above 0%, GPT-6 Luna (max), GPT-6.1 Sol (max), Muse Spark 1.3 (max), and Grok 4.7 (xhigh) set the Pareto frontier for score versus cost per task. GPT-6 Luna (max) is the cheapest at about $0.22 per task, scoring 3.3%, while Grok 4.7 (xhigh) leads at about $9.50 per task and Muse Spark 1.3 (max) costs about $4.20. The three Claude models cost about $18 to $22 per task.

AIArtificial Analysis reports that Kimi K3 (max) achieves a 93.0% Criterion Pass Rate but averages 2.09 material hallucinations per task. Muse Spark 1.3 (max) scores higher at 96.0% while averaging 1.68 material hallucinations per task, showing that completing criteria and avoiding hallucinations are distinct skills.

AIActor Ben Affleck drew attention this week for explaining machine learning concepts, including convolutional neural networks, tensors, and transformers, in several recent interviews. He said he fine-tuned open video models by unfreezing weights and training only the last cinematic layer, using a dataset he built over about eight months for his startup. Affleck said he worries about students and learned helplessness more than Skynet, and predicted AI will be additive to the movie business.

AIA group of mathematicians led by Terence Tao has called for a boycott of OpenAI after the company released more than 700 AI-generated proof files at once. Tao and other Fields Medalists argue that mass-produced solutions undermine the discipline's focus on conceptual understanding, while Scott Aaronson contrasts this batch release with Anthropic's collaborative approach. The article reports that the internal model tested about 8,000 problems with roughly a five percent success rate.

AITrump disclosed more than 500 securities transactions in August, including a purchase of up to $25 million in Meta stock and up to $5 million in SpaceX senior unsecured notes. The filing, which reports trades in value ranges, shows total activity of roughly $74.3 million to $273.3 million according to a CNBC analysis. The SpaceX notes were bought two days before Trump signed a national space transportation policy, and the White House says the portfolio is independently managed.

AISK Hynix publicly acknowledged that 16-high HBM stacks are difficult, and the market is now prioritizing bandwidth over capacity. SemiAnalysis argues hybrid bonding's HBM case rested on stack height, which is no problem at 4-high and 8-high, so D2W hybrid bonding for HBM is now uncertain rather than merely delayed.

AIAccording to investor materials cited in the post, OpenAI's annualized revenue was $50B at the end of September, up from $30B in July and below the $70B previously reported. The post also notes Anthropic was at $65B annualized at the end of July.

AIEthan Mollick notes that some OpenAI proofs have sparked rapid iterative advances from a wide community of collaborators amid debate over their implications for mathematics. A related post reports that a collaborative effort tightened the bound κ from 2⁻¹⁸² to 2⁻¹⁵, a roughly 500-thousand-fold improvement on the previous result.

AIEpoch AI says it will expand its task suite, retire saturated tasks, and publish updated findings as new models are released. The announcement points to a full report by Kelly Hong on whether AI can automate tasks.

AIEpoch AI introduced Epoch Automation Reports, which evaluate frontier models on realistic, open-ended tasks drawn from its own work. Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra lead the results, but neither comes close to fully automating Epoch's work.

AIEthan Mollick predicts that a short document at will become assigned reading in college classes covering the current moment. He says the few paragraphs contain a great deal of significant content, though the post itself gives no further detail.

AIPresident Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence," instead of "Super Intelligence," to be "THE ENEMY." The article reports that Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos have adopted the "super intelligence" term, and that ai.gov was changed to read "SI" while si.gov appears dormant.

AIThariq, an Anthropic-affiliated account, posted a brief call that the team should be more ambitious. The post names no product, model, or concrete plan, so no further details can be supported.

AIBoris Power praised what he called impressively fast progress on the community effort to optimize integer multiplication below n log n. The effort is tracked on a live progress page launched by @aurel_pr, which lets everyone follow the results as they come in.

AILightspeed Venture Partners co-leaders Ravi Mhatre and Bejul Somaia halted partner schedules in April 2023 for a seven-hour meeting on how to respond to AI. The firm had missed early stakes in OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Hugging Face, and was poised to back Anthropic.

AICalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the "No Robo Bosses Act," which bars employers from fully outsourcing disciplinary and termination decisions to automated decision systems. Employers must verify AI outputs and give employees a description of the reasons, including the data used, and the law takes effect July 1, 2027.