Sam Altman claims that artificial intelligence already surpasses the best scientists. What evidence supports that comparison? The controversy over OpenAI’s mathematical proofs raises questions about how to understand and make use of its results.
For Futurism, the controversy shows how problematic it is to go from presenting mathematical solutions to declaring that AI is generally smarter than the most brilliant scientists. Because presenting a solution and making it understandable to the community are two different things. That is the criticism. The outlet sees
What happens when an AI publishes hundreds of results and someone has to review them all? Futurism reports that OpenAI released more than seven hundred mathematical manuscripts, grouped into 372 families of problems. The outlet says the solutions seemed technically correct, but their proofs were almost incomprehensible
China vs. the United States in artificial intelligence: who has the edge? We compare models such as DeepSeek-R1, distribution, chips, investment, and political power to understand why there is no single winner.
A company finds an artificial intelligence model that performs well in its tests. It can pay to use it through an API or download its weights and run it. The score is the same, but the decision has just become more complicated. What changes between the two options? Who operates the model, how much control
Can you reconstruct an artificial intelligence just because you downloaded its weights? Not necessarily. The episode explains that DeepSeek-R1 offered downloadable weights under the MIT license as well as access through an API. But having those weights does not mean having all the code or the information needed to reproduce
Does your smart TV keep sending data after you disable automatic content recognition (ACR)? The episode examines tests conducted by Northeastern researchers and reported by FULU.
According to FULU, in tests with Vizio and Samsung TVs, researchers observed ACR traffic in every test, even after disabling it. That casts doubt on whether the control did what the person who turned it off expected. In those tests, yes. FULU’s own explanation frames the consequence
Will Google be able to require Android developers to register to distribute apps outside Google Play? An open letter from 71 organizations calls for the requirement to be withdrawn and warns of its effects on privacy and freedom of distribution.
First: the letter argues that registration would extend Google’s involvement beyond its own store. Let’s return to the developer who publishes her app on a website. Someone interested could download it there and install it directly on their phone. That route does not go through Google Play, but the
What if publishing an app required you to hand over your identity to a company you do not use?
Can one AI improve another without retraining it? An MIT experiment shows how GPT-6 Astra modified a small portion of Qwen3.5-0.8B’s weights and improved its math performance.
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