2026-02-17
'The world's leading artificial intelligence companies are turning to advanced mathematical problems as a measure of progress, using unsolved questions to test their systems in the competitive race to build more capable AI models.'
Financial Times
Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress
OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic seek to use advanced maths to show how capable AI models really are
2026-01-26
OpenAI is really putting the “garbage” in garbage in/garbage out: — 'The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.'
The Guardian
Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT is citing Grokipedia as a source on some obscure topics, including Iranian political structures
2026-01-25
OpenAI is really putting the “garbage” in garbage in/garbage out: — 'The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.'
The Guardian
Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT is citing Grokipedia as a source on some obscure topics, including Iranian political structures
Guardian found OpenAI's platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers — The latest model of ChatGPT has begun …
2025-10-23
‘More start-ups have formed across Europe in recent years, fueled by world-class research hubs in Britain, booming tech sectors in France and Germany, a high venture capital presence in Estonia and robust backing by pension funds in Sweden.’ — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/b...
New York Times
Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders. Bluesky: @cyrilpedia Bluesky: Thiago Carvalho / @cyrilpedia : ‘Mo...
2025-05-01
'The case, which has been brought by about a dozen authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Richard Kadrey, is centred around the $1.4tn social media giant's use of LibGen, a so-called shadow library of millions of books, academic articles and comics, to train its Llama AI models.'
Financial Times
Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, kicks off, marking the first big legal test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright
Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen — Meta will fight a group of US authors …
2022-08-01
‘Pseudo-monopolies of this type, however, cannot last forever. The past decade has been good for these social-media giants, but the sudden ascent of TikTok might turn out to be the disruption that finally ends their reign.’ https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook
that putting aside TikTok's recent dominance in terms of watch times — I think YouTube has never had any *real* competition in the non-live space and probably never will. It has th...
2022-07-31
‘Pseudo-monopolies of this type, however, cannot last forever. The past decade has been good for these social-media giants, but the sudden ascent of TikTok might turn out to be the disruption that finally ends their reign.’ https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook
Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.
2022-05-30
‘Within a few years, numerous inventions could involve AI. This is creating one of the biggest threats patent systems have faced. Patent law is based on the assumption that inventors are human;it currently struggles to deal w an inventor that is a machine’ https://www.nature.com/...
Nature
Experts say that governments should create bespoke IP law and an international treaty to protect AI-generated inventions, rather than rework old patent laws
2021-08-22
'The computer looks like what you'd get if you bought a dehumidifier at the moma store; in a rack in a data center, it takes up the same space as fifteen of the pizza-box-size machines powered by G.P.U.s.' https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.