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More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

@tristanbuckmaster@mastodon.social 1/3 I want to record a number of points that I realized after reading up on the controversy. In fact it recalls an exchange I had with OpenAI after its non-sofic-group announcement. It exposes a serious, unanswered question about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished mathematics. I wrote in an email to Mark Sellke and Sebastien Bubeck shortly after the surprising finding of a non-sofic group using the methods of Kun and myself: “Another point is that I and a colleague in Dresden were discussing the expander matching problem and various extensions of the work with Gabor Kun actively over the last months with ChatGPT, so that we are of course curious if that was part of the training data o

Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

SWE-2: 2800B params, k context. See memory requirements, quantization options, and cloud pricing.

Neki – Sharded Postgres

Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.

Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)

Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly sought to adopt AI-enabled systems. Big tech companies, venture capital, and private equity firms benefit from multi-billion dollar Defense contracts, and smaller defense tech startups that “move fast and break things” also receive increased Defense funding. Dr. González's report illustrates how a growing portion of the Defense Department’s spending is going to large, well-known tech firms, including some of the most highly valued c

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…

OpenAI Agents API

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What happens when a GPU writes memory

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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

Hitachi has introduced its Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan, with 370-liter and 460-liter models set to launch from November 2026. The upgraded range adds expanded support for daytime electricity tariffs and PV-linked energy management, alongside a five-year manufacturer warranty.

Creativity is the new moat

AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

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