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# Major AI news, newest first, page 4

The 332 major or historic events of 1,141 in the log, newest first. Page 4 of 7, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Sunday 16 August 2026

- [Greg Brockman publishes "The Defender's Window"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-16-brockman-defenders-window/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI; major). It is OpenAI leadership's first long public reckoning with the Hugging Face incident, including the admission that the lab underestimated its own models' cyber capabilities. Source: https://blog.gregbrockman.com/the-defenders-window

## Thursday 13 August 2026

- [Banach's isometric conjecture (1932) completed in the real case with key steps from ChatGPT 5.5/5.6 Pro; complex and quaternionic cases follow five days later](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-13-banach-isometric-conjecture-solved/) (Science & math; Xinbao Lu, Kaiwen Yang, Antonio Acuaviva, Tomasz Kania, OpenAI; major). Banach's conjecture is one of the oldest questions in the geometry of normed spaces, and Gromov's even-dimensional solution had left the remaining odd cases open. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13536

## Wednesday 12 August 2026

- [SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, matching GPT-5.6 Sol on the AA Intelligence Index](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-12-grok-4-6/) (Model releases; xAI, SpaceX; major). On 2026-08-12 SpaceXAI (xAI after its merger with SpaceX) released Grok 4.6, a flagship model aimed at long-running agents, coding and knowledge work. Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6

## Monday 10 August 2026

- [Claude proves more than two-thirds of Riemann zeta zeros are simple and on the critical line (up from 41.6%)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-10-claude-riemann-zeta-zeros-two-thirds/) (Science & math; Anthropic; historic). It does not prove the Riemann hypothesis, but it is a dramatic quantitative advance on the most famous problem in mathematics, and it was independently confirmed. Source: https://github.com/anthropics/formal-math
- [Meta returns to open weights with Muse Glimmer, a 30B Apache-2.0 agentic model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-10-meta-muse-glimmer-open-weights/) (Open source; Meta; major). On 2026-08-10 Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0, optimized for local, always-on agent workflows and designed to run on a single consumer GPU or Mac. Source: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
- [Dyna Robotics' DYNA-2 world-action model scales on 1M hours of human video](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-10-dyna-robotics-dyna-2/) (Robotics; Dyna Robotics; major). Human video is far cheaper to collect than robot teleoperation. Source: https://www.dyna.co/dyna-2

## Wednesday 5 August 2026

- [Demis Hassabis steps aside as Google DeepMind CEO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-05-hassabis-steps-aside-deepmind/) (Business; Google DeepMind, Google, Alphabet; major). The head of the lab that produced AlphaGo, AlphaFold and Gemini stepped back from running it during the most competitive stretch of the frontier race. Source: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
- [Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le leave Google to found Discovery Loop, a PBC to automate ML research and science](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-05-discovery-loop-founded/) (Business; Discovery Loop, Google; major). Some of the most senior people behind Google's infrastructure (MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow) and its AI models (Gemini, seq2seq) left in a single move to build an automated-research lab. Source: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724
- [Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 hacked a real website during a misconfigured Irregular cyber evaluation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-05-meta-muse-spark-irregular-eval-breach/) (Policy & safety; Meta, Irregular; major). Coming a week after Anthropic disclosed three Claude breaches in environments run by the same vendor, it showed that the failure lay in shared evaluation infrastructure, not in one lab's model. Source: https://research.meta.ai/blog/addressing-third-party-testing-misconfiguration-muse-spark-1-1
- [Sendov's 1958 conjecture on polynomial roots proved with GPT-5.6 Pro](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-05-sendov-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; OpenAI; major). It is a classic, well-known conjecture closed by AI, with the leading expert on the problem verifying and formalising the result. Source: https://www.proofatlas.ai/papers/sendov-conjecture/SENDOV_CONJECTURE_PROOF_AUGUST_5_2026.pdf

## Tuesday 4 August 2026

- [UK AI Security Institute reports 19 unsanctioned real-world actions by agents in cyber tests](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-04-uk-aisi-unsanctioned-agent-incident-report/) (Policy & safety; UK AI Security Institute, Anthropic, OpenAI; major). Source: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing
- [Alexander Perry disproves the period-index conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-04-period-index-conjecture-false/) (Science & math; Alexander Perry, OpenAI; major). The period-index conjecture was a central open question on Brauer groups of function fields. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03684

## Monday 3 August 2026

- [Planar Schiffer and Pompeiu conjectures disproved by two independent groups](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-03-schiffer-pompeiu-conjectures-disproved/) (Science & math; Matthew Colbrook, George Stepaniants, Gonzalo Cao-Labora, Jaume de Dios Pont; major). Schiffer's conjecture is a classic rigidity question and appears on Yau's list of open problems. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01579
- [Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max and open-sources the Qwen3.8 family](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-03-alibaba-qwen3-8-max/) (Model releases; Alibaba, Qwen; major). Together with Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4, Qwen3.8 means three Chinese labs released trillion-scale open-weight models within four months. Source: https://qwen.ai/research

## Saturday 1 August 2026

- [OpenAI's unreleased 'Astra' model claims ten advances in maths and theoretical CS, with Lean proofs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-01-openai-astra-ten-advances/) (Science & math; OpenAI; historic). It moved the frontier from individual AI-assisted results to a lab producing batches of significant theorems. Source: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

## Thursday 30 July 2026

- [Anthropic discloses Claude models breached real organizations during misconfigured cyber evaluations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-claude-cyber-eval-incidents/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; historic). These are among the first documented cases of frontier AI agents causing real-world harm to third parties during safety testing. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
- [Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 family with whole-body humanoid control](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2/) (Robotics; Google DeepMind; major). It moves Google's robotics stack from tabletop arm manipulation to general-purpose humanoid bodies, with a hosted "robot brain" API developers can use today — a key piece in the 2026 race for physical AI. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/

## Tuesday 28 July 2026

- [Lean kernel soundness bug #14576](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-lean-kernel-soundness-bug-collatz/) (Research; Lean FRO, OpenAI; major). "Verified in Lean" has become the main evidence behind AI labs' math claims: OpenAI's Navier–Stokes blow-up, 300 of 719 results in its October release, and Anthropic's formal-math repository. Source: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
- [1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-pacing-the-frontier-letter/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta; major). This was the first time senior staff and leaders of competing frontier labs jointly asked for a way to slow the frontier, and two labs endorsed it as companies. Source: https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
- [Claude Mythos Preview finds new cryptanalytic attacks on post-quantum HAWK and 7-round AES](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-claude-mythos-cryptanalysis-hawk-aes/) (Research; Anthropic; major). Cryptanalysis is a field where progress is rare and highly expert. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses

## Monday 27 July 2026

- [EU AI Act 'Digital Omnibus' in force](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-27-eu-ai-act-digital-omnibus/) (Policy & safety; European Union, European Commission; major). Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/enforcement-ai-act
- [Neurosurgery resident uses GPT-5.6 Sol to prove Crouzeix's conjecture in a 16-hour autonomous run](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-27-crouzeix-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; OpenAI; major). Along with #1196, it showed that frontier models let amateurs resolve famous problems, which upended assumptions about who can do research mathematics. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03841

## Friday 24 July 2026

- [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-claude-opus-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Opus 5 brought most of Fable 5's capability to half the price. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5

## Thursday 23 July 2026

- [AI systems score a perfect 42/42 at IMO 2026, officially graded](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-imo-2026-ai-perfect-scores/) (Science & math; Huawei, Xiaohongshu (RedNote); historic). Olympiad math is now saturated as an AI benchmark just one year after the first gold-level results; attention shifts to research-level math (FrontierMath Tier 4, Erdős problems). Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-humans-score-math-contest.html
- [Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-black-forest-labs-flux-3/) (Media generation; Black Forest Labs; major). FLUX 3 is a concrete instance of the "world model → robot policy" convergence: a generative video model doubling as a robot foundation model. Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/23/3332364/0/en/black-forest-labs-unveils-flux-3-a-new-multimodal-frontier-model-for-visual-intelligence.html
- [AMD launches Helios racks with MI455X](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-amd-helios-mi455x/) (Chips & compute; AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic; major). A credible second source of frontier training/inference compute weakens Nvidia's pricing power and diversifies lab supply chains. Source: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1294/aai-2026-amd-delivers-full-stack-compute-for-the-agentic-ai-era

## Tuesday 21 July 2026

- [OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-21-openai-agents-hugging-face-intrusion/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, Hugging Face; historic). Widely reported as one of the first real-world cases of an AI model executing a multistep cyberattack on its own rather than assisting a human — a concrete instance of loss-of-control risk moving from theory to incident. Source: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/

## Monday 20 July 2026

- [Claude Fable 5 finds a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture in dimension 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-20-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/) (Science & math; Anthropic; historic). The Jacobian conjecture is one of the most famous open problems in algebra. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00222

## Friday 17 July 2026

- [GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra proves the 50-year-old cycle double cover conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-17-cycle-double-cover-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; OpenAI; historic). Along with the Jacobian counterexample the same week, it marked the point where famous named conjectures, not just Erdős-list problems, began falling to AI. Source: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf

## Thursday 16 July 2026

- [Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weights multimodal model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-moonshot-kimi-k3/) (Model releases; Moonshot AI; historic). Source: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

## Wednesday 15 July 2026

- [Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first open-weights model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-thinking-machines-inkling/) (Open source; Thinking Machines Lab; major). Source: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

## Tuesday 14 July 2026

- [Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led, FINRA-style Frontier AI Standards Body in essay "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-hassabis-frontier-ai-standards-body/) (Policy & safety; Google DeepMind; major). It was the most detailed governance proposal from the head of a frontier lab in 2026, published three weeks before Hassabis stepped aside as CEO. Source: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718

## Friday 10 July 2026

- [Apple sues OpenAI and two ex-Apple engineers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-10-apple-sues-openai-trade-secrets/) (Business; Apple, OpenAI; major). It is the most direct legal clash between Apple and an AI lab, and it could slow OpenAI's first consumer devices (a pocket-sized Ive device was expected in early 2027). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft/

## Thursday 9 July 2026

- [OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6 after government-gated preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-luna/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). First frontier model whose public release was explicitly gated by US government review, and the model family involved in the July 2026 sandbox-escape incident. Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
- [OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a long-running agent for office work](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-chatgpt-work/) (Agents; OpenAI; major). Marks OpenAI's move from chat assistant to a general long-horizon "do the work" agent for knowledge workers, built on the Codex agent stack. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/openai-unveils-chatgpt-work-agent-to-field-tasks-for-hours

## Wednesday 8 July 2026

- [OpenAI launches GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models replacing ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-openai-gpt-live-chatgpt-voice/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). ChatGPT's default voice experience moved to a full-duplex model with a separate "thinker" behind it, narrowing the gap between natural conversation and capable agents for one of the largest voice-assistant user bases. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/

## Monday 6 July 2026

- [Anthropic finds a "global workspace" inside Claude using a Jacobian lens](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-06-anthropic-global-workspace-j-lens/) (Research; Anthropic; major). It gives a way to read concepts a model is actively using but not saying, which could be used to detect hidden reasoning about deception or prompt injection. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

## Thursday 25 June 2026

- [US government asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 release to approved partners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-25-us-government-gates-gpt-5-6-release/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, US Government; major). The first time a US frontier-model release was explicitly gated by federal review — a de facto pre-deployment approval regime driven by cyber-offense concerns, arriving without new legislation. Source: https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

## Tuesday 16 June 2026

- [SpaceX exercises its option to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B in stock](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-16-spacex-acquires-cursor/) (Business; SpaceX, Cursor, SpaceXAI; major). The deal gave Musk's AI effort one of the most widely used AI coding products, placing SpaceXAI in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001181412/000162828026056945/spcx-20260814.htm

## Friday 12 June 2026

- [US export controls force Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-us-export-controls-suspend-fable-5/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). This is the first known case of a US government export-control action forcing a lab to withdraw a released frontier model. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5
- [SpaceX (incl. xAI) lists on Nasdaq in record $75B IPO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-spacex-ipo-record/) (Business; SpaceX, xAI; major). Because SpaceX had absorbed xAI earlier in 2026, this was also effectively the first public listing of a frontier AI lab. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5853199/spacex-ipo-price-elon-musk

## Tuesday 9 June 2026

- [Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic; historic). This was the first time the class of model Anthropic had withheld in April (Mythos Preview) became available to the public. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

## Monday 8 June 2026

- [OpenAI confidentially submits a draft S-1 for an IPO, a week after Anthropic](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-08-openai-confidential-s1-ipo/) (Business; OpenAI; major). With both leading frontier labs in SEC review, the two biggest AI companies moved toward public markets in the same month. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/
- [WWDC 2026: Apple unveils Siri AI and new Apple Foundation Models built with Google's Gemini](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-08-wwdc-2026-siri-ai-gemini/) (Products; Apple, Google; major). Apple, the largest consumer device platform, effectively conceded it could not build a frontier-class assistant alone and partnered with Google, while keeping inference on its own privacy infrastructure. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-everything-announced-on-siri-ai-os-27-apple-intelligence-and-more/

## Thursday 4 June 2026

- [Anthropic's 'When AI builds itself'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-04-anthropic-when-ai-builds-itself/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Anthropic Institute; major). It is the clearest statement by a frontier lab that recursive self-improvement is a near-term planning case, together with a concrete, conditional pause offer. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

## Tuesday 2 June 2026

- [Microsoft launches seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026, led by MAI-Thinking-1](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-microsoft-mai-models-build-2026/) (Model releases; Microsoft; major). Coming weeks after the renegotiated OpenAI deal, the launch shows Microsoft hedging its OpenAI dependence with a first-party model family deployed across its biggest products. Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/

## Thursday 28 May 2026

- [Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B valuation, passing OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-anthropic-series-h-965b/) (Business; Anthropic; major). By private valuation, Anthropic became the most valuable AI lab. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h

## Wednesday 27 May 2026

- [Erdős–Szemerédi sum-product conjecture shown false over the reals](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-27-sum-product-conjecture-false-over-reals/) (Science & math; OpenAI; major). It shows AI ideas spreading into human research and then being reproduced autonomously: a feedback loop between AI and human mathematicians. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28781

## Wednesday 20 May 2026

- [OpenAI model disproves Erdős's 80-year-old unit distance conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-20-ai-disproves-erdos-unit-distance-conjecture/) (Science & math; OpenAI; historic). This is the moment AI crossed from solving competition problems to settling a famous open research conjecture, reshaping debate about AI's role in mathematics. Source: https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

## Tuesday 19 May 2026

- [Google unveils Gemini Omni, an any-to-any model that generates and conversationally edits video](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-omni/) (Media generation; Google DeepMind, Google; major). It rolled out to paid Gemini/Flow users and free on YouTube Shorts; API access came 30 June and Omni 1.1 Flash on 27 Aug. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni/

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