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The Brief

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Leading today: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Also in this issue: AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job; Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 44 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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openai.com
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

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weeraman.com
AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

Trending on Hacker News (249 points, 261 comments).

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microsoft.github.io
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

Trending on Hacker News (248 points, 66 comments).

New Today
the-decoder.com
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio

ByteDance just shipped Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that produces video and audio together in one go. Each clip runs up to 30 seconds, three times what Google's Gemini Omni Flash puts out.

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the-decoder.com
OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions

OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for hours or even days. CEO Sam Altman has already demoed Astra to policymakers in Washington.

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marktechpost.com
AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs

AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs.

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marktechpost.com
MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio

MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons.

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news.google.com
Open Source AI Models: 9 Launches in 12 Days [2026] - tech-insider.org

Open Source AI Models: 9 Launches in 12 Days [2026]    tech-insider.org

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techcrunch.com
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

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Research & Engineering
the-decoder.com
AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right

A field report from OpenAI and academic partners shows coding agents can modernize neglected research software, with speedups of up to 60x.

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marktechpost.com
Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks

Supabase has open sourced supabase/evals, an Apache-2.0 benchmark and framework that runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode against real Supabase tasks — building schemas, debugging Edge Functions,...

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simonwillison.net
Quoting Greg Brockman

at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by th...

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simonwillison.net
datasette-apps 0.2a0

Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent : New app_debug() tool allowing agent to open an app (invisibly) and test it using JavaScript.

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simonwillison.net
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that includ...

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news.google.com
Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?    NPR

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Project Highlights
code.intellios.ai
Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

Trending on Hacker News (136 points, 42 comments).

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