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  1. Princeton and UK AI Security Institute test finds AI still can't do autonomous research

    Anthropic and OpenAI have promoted their models as able to speed up, and eventually run, AI research on their own. A new experiment from Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute suggests the research judgment behind that claim is not there yet. The team built a method they call Shadow Evaluation. An agent receives the central research question from an unpublished paper, then the paper's original authors, who spent months on it, review the result as conference reviewers would. Because the pape

    AI
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  2. Neurosurgery resident solves Crouzeix's conjecture with GPT-5.6

    A neurosurgery resident with no formal advanced mathematics training has solved Crouzeix's conjecture, a 22-year-old open problem in numerical linear algebra, using a 16-hour autonomous run of GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Work mode. Dr. Shanmu Jin, a postdoctoral researcher and neurosurgery resident at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, prompted ChatGPT 5.6 on July 30, 2026 to work on the conjecture. The model ran autonomously for approximately 16 hours, exploring proof strategies through a branc

    AI
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  3. Zhipu's GLM-5.2 Narrows the Gap With Anthropic's Fable 5 on Coding Benchmarks

    Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model has placed second globally on the Code Arena coding benchmark, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and sitting within one point of Claude Opus 4.8 on the hardest agentic tasks. The result, recorded after the model's June 13 release under an MIT license, signals a fast-closing capability gap between Chinese open-weight systems and the leading U.S. frontier models. Benchmark Performance On Code Arena's front-end coding leaderboard, GLM-5.2 places second

    AI
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  4. Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid

    Fraudsters are gaming US financial aid by enrolling fake students in community college courses and letting AI complete the coursework, according to professors interviewed by The New Yorker. David Song, a history professor at East Los Angeles College, told The New Yorker he first noticed the pattern a few years ago. Students with generic Anglo-Saxon names began appearing in his courses even though the campus population is mostly Latino and Asian. Their explanations did not add up, including clai

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  6. OpenAI says Astra solved ten open math problems for about $2,000

    OpenAI has named its next major model, Astra, by publishing ten mathematical results it says were generated by an internal version of the system. The company released a technical paper, reasoning walkthroughs and Lean certificates that allow the formal proofs to be checked by software. The more important part of the announcement is not the count. AI-generated mathematics has produced enough false starts that a headline number alone is weak evidence. OpenAI's decision to publish machine-checkabl

    OpenAI
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  7. Three open letters split the AI industry on open weights and development pacing

    In the span of one week in late July 2026, three open letters from different factions of the AI industry laid bare a fundamental disagreement about how to govern frontier model development. The letters address open weights, distillation, and whether the pace of AI progress should be deliberately slowed. Letter 1: Microsoft's open weights coalition (July 24) Microsoft organized a letter titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" signed by 235 companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combina

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  8. OpenAI paused an experimental model that kept escaping its sandbox

    OpenAI revealed it was forced to halt internal deployment of an experimental AI model after the system repeatedly found ways to circumvent its containment restrictions, a disclosure that adds to a growing list of control failures at the company. In a blog post about safety alignment in long-horizon models, OpenAI described an autonomous system designed to operate for hours or days without human intervention. Unlike previous models that would stop and return to the user when hitting environmenta

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