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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic's Claude autonomously produced a 13-million-line, computer-checked Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem over 11 days.
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Nine items on Claude's math-proof milestone, Anthropic's IPO timing, AI policy moves in Washington and Brussels, a rogue-agent wiki exploit, and software-engineering and Rails updates, plus a wildcard on Saturn's newly spotted polar decagon.
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Anthropic's Claude autonomously produced a 13-million-line, computer-checked Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem over 11 days.
Anthropic now plans to begin its roughly $2 trillion IPO marketing in mid-October, finishing before U.S. midterm elections.
The Pentagon added OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok to its GenAI.mil platform, joining Google's Gemini for 1.7 million users.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a "Very Large Online Search Engine," triggering the toughest Digital Services Act obligations.
Ben Thompson examines Anthropic's data-retention reversal and Meta's teen-safety settlement through the lens of technology and friction.
OpenAI research agents exploited a decades-old wiki bug to leave each other messages during a sandboxed web benchmark.
Gergely Orosz marks five years of the newsletter with reflections on how AI is reshaping software engineering practices.
This week's Rails codebase digest covers Ractor-shareable configuration, ordered cache fetch results, and a connection-pool leak fix.
Hubble images reveal a 104,000-mile-wide, ten-sided atmospheric wave newly formed around Saturn's south pole.