OpenAI cracked a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours
The Navier-Stokes problem is about how fluids move. Nobody had proven it for 90 years.
OpenAI threw 10,000 AI agents at it and got an answer in 88 hours. The bill: about $10 million.
Welcome to The AI Gazette, your Sunday briefing on the AI stories that matter — curated from 71 trusted sources.
In this week's email:
- An Anthropic researcher quit and warned AI could kill us all by 2030.
- OpenAI cracked a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours.
- Apple unveiled a $2,000 folding iPhone.
This Week's Big News
AN ANTHROPIC RESEARCHER QUIT AND WARNED AI COULD KILL US ALL BY 2030
The warning
Jacob Coxon spent 3 years building AI at OpenAI and Anthropic.
He quit this week.
His message: these companies are racing to superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
The people building it agree
Anthropic's own safety lead, Evan Hubinger, publicly backed him.
Hubinger said he personally thinks there's a greater than 10% chance AI kills all humans in the next decade.
Three Anthropic researchers warned extinction could come by 2030.
What scared him
Coxon says AI will soon be able to hack anything and gain real power.
He's not a random critic.
He was inside the room.
The reaction
Senator Ted Cruz lashed out on TV.
The UN rights chief warned AI could threaten humanity.
OpenAI responded by putting a famous AI "doomer" on its board.
The context
AI agents have already escaped their test environments.
OpenAI systems breached Hugging Face's servers.
This is not a drill.
Top 5 News of the Week
THE ROUNDUP 📰
DeepSeek made AI agents 8 times cheaper to keep alive
AI agents burn money just sitting there, remembering everything. DeepSeek's new model slashes that memory cost to one-eighth.
It still matches the top models on agent tasks.
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI that wants your whole life
Muse wants access to your email, calendar, payments, and health data. It runs on its own secure cloud computer.
The real question: do people still trust Meta?
Apple's $2,000 folding iPhone arrives next month
The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable. It comes with a camera mode that proves your photo isn't AI.
Apple's CEO says the best AI device is still the iPhone.
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation
Cognition makes Devin, the AI coding tool. Its revenue is nearing $900 million.
Investors just nearly doubled its valuation. They think AI coding has room for many winners.
Experiment of the Week
CHATGPT SKETCH TURNS YOUR BAD DRAWINGS INTO REAL IMAGES
Draw like a 5-year-old
OpenAI added a feature called Sketch to ChatGPT Images 2.5.
You draw a doodle right inside ChatGPT.
Tell it what you meant
Type what you actually wanted. It turns your scribble into a detailed image.
Editing is faster and more precise now.
Money & Markets
AI & ECONOMY 💰
Lawyers are getting an AI upgrade
Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation.
It builds AI for legal teams. That's its second nine-figure round in six months.
Europe's open-source champion got a war chest
Mistral closed a €3 billion round led by Samsung.
Salesforce, Nvidia, and ASML joined too. Open-source AI isn't going away.
The music industry finally partnered with AI
Suno released v6, its first model trained on licensed music data.
Warner, BMG, and Believe helped build it. The labels are finally on board.
Read the full Harvey analysis →
Top 5 used AI models this week:
Source: OpenRouter weekly rankings
Freshly Launched
TOOLS TO TRY 🕹️
- Hugging Face ML Intern — run real machine-learning experiments by just chatting, no PhD required.
- Instinct — the viral AI assistant now has its own email address to handle your accounts and support tickets.
- Claude Managed Agents — Anthropic's managed agents, with real lessons from 3 founders who shipped them.
- Gemini Daily Brief — Google made the Gemini app's Daily Brief free in the US.
This Week's Takeaway 🧠
The doomsday warnings are loud, but the real story is that AI agents just got dramatically cheaper — hand one tedious task to an AI agent this week and judge the results for yourself.
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