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OpenAI Does Math, Reward-Hacking, Meta Launches Personal Agent
Weekly column on OpenAI's Navier-Stokes claim, reward-hacking concerns, and Meta's new Muse personal agent.
// daily-digest · wed 9 sep 2026 · morning refresh · last 72h focus
Ten items on OpenAI's Navier-Stokes controversy and Meta's Muse launch, Pentagon AI contracting, Mistral's funding round, engineering and policy reads, plus a paleontology wildcard.
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Weekly column on OpenAI's Navier-Stokes claim, reward-hacking concerns, and Meta's new Muse personal agent.
Examines OpenAI's disputed claim of progress on the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem.
FOIA documents show the Pentagon sought an OpenAI system built with minimal refusal rates.
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that can email, book travel, and pay bills.
Mistral raised a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung, valuing the company above €21 billion.
Argues Congress should avoid the EU's stumbling AI Act model, citing Colorado's repealed AI law.
Argues domain expertise determines who extracts the most value from large language models.
DPS board president Xóchitl Gaytán accused two colleagues of policy violations, including antisemitic language.
Phish revived "Melt the Guns" at Commerce City, its longest-ever gap between song performances.
Researchers identified a new 20-meter dinosaur species in Brazil dating to roughly 120 million years ago.