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A mathematician accuses OpenAI of appropriating his and an Anthropic researcher's unpublished proof. Plus Ben Thompson pushes back on Jensen Huang's AGI claim, GPT-6 Astra's chain-of-thought turns opaque, and a wildcard: AI now steers fusion plasma faster than any human operator.

Ten items on an OpenAI–Anthropic authorship dispute over a fluid-dynamics proof, Stratechery on the AGI debate, Astra's monitoring gap, fintech and policy reads, plus a wildcard on AI-controlled fusion plasma.

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Joseph Howlett · Scientific American · Sep 8

OpenAI claims blockbuster math breakthrough amid swirl of controversy

A mathematician alleges OpenAI adopted his and an Anthropic researcher's unpublished method for an Euler equations proof.

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Ben Thompson · Stratechery · Sep 6

Write Things Down

Argues Jensen Huang's "AGI has arrived" claim misdefines AGI, which Thompson says actually appeared with Claude Code's harness.

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Zvi Mowshowitz · Sep 8

Astra Is Hard to Monitor

Examines GPT-6 Astra's system card admission of a substantial decrease in chain-of-thought monitorability versus prior models.

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Crypto Briefing · Sep 4

Anthropic evaluates building in-house payment infrastructure, weighing reliance on Stripe

Anthropic's billing team is running build-vs-buy evaluations on reducing its dependence on Stripe for payments.

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Google DeepMind · Sep 8

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

Google DeepMind released a 1-petabyte dataset predicting molecular effects for all 9 billion possible human genome variants.

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TradingKey · Sep 8

Anthropic and OpenAI Seek Post-IPO Investment-Grade Ratings as Massive AI Compute Spending Fuels Financing Needs

Banks are engaging rating agencies to help both AI labs pursue investment-grade credit ratings ahead of planned IPOs.

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AFP · Free Malaysia Today · Sep 1

EU questions dozens of companies using new AI powers

The European Commission sent information requests to more than 30 AI providers on safety and copyright compliance under the AI Act.

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Sean Goedecke · Sep 8

Automatically detecting AI text in my browser

Describes building a Chrome extension that locally detects AI-generated text on webpages without third-party data sharing.

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phish.net · Sep 5

Phish Setlist: September 5, 2026 — Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO

Setlist from night two of Phish's Labor Day weekend three-night run outside Denver.

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Wildcard · ScienceDaily · Sep 3

AI can now control fusion plasma faster than humans can react

Princeton's PACMAN framework reads fusion plasma measurements and issues control commands in about 20 milliseconds.