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The new ARC-AGI-3 benchmark drops AI into unfamiliar environments with zero instructions. Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 0.37%, GPT-5.4 scores 0.26%, Claude Opus 4.6 scores 0.25%, Grok-4.20 scores 0.00%. Humans score 100%.
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Using Lean 4 formal verification, Joseph Tooby-Smith (University of Bath) found that a 20-year-old theorem on Higgs stability is mathematically wrong. The first non-trivial error in physics found through formalization.
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Apple hires Lilian Rincon, the Google VP who built Google Assistant "from zero to one," as VP of AI Product Marketing. She reports to Greg Joswiak and will lead Apple Intelligence and Siri strategy.
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Bloomberg reports Apple is testing a standalone Siri chatbot app as part of iOS 27. Codenamed "Campos," it is powered by a custom Google Gemini model via a reported $1 billion annual deal.
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GPT-5.2 Pro disproved Erdős Problem #397 by finding an infinite family of counterexamples. Terence Tao verified the proof, formalized in Lean 4. Three Erdős problems solved in one week.
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The Arc Institute, Salk, and Stanford publish Evo 2 in Nature — a 7B parameter model with a 1-million nucleotide context window that can read, predict, and design DNA across all domains of life.
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Google Research unveils TurboQuant, achieving 6x memory reduction and 8x speed boost for LLM inference. Memory stocks plunge as investors fear the end of the HBM boom.
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Apple embedded Neural Accelerators in every GPU core. M5 Max runs 70B parameter models locally at 110+ tokens/sec on 60W — faster than most cloud APIs. Zero latency, complete privacy, no subscription. The Sovereign AI era begins.
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Harvard and Salk researchers found 6 chemical compounds that reset the epigenetic clock of human cells by over 30 years in just 5 days. No surgery, no gene editing. Plus: practical lifestyle strategies to slow epigenetic aging right now.
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A gene called DEAF1 gets stuck ON as you age, overdriving muscle repair until it breaks. Exercise resets it through FOXO longevity genes. Duke scientists are now working on a pill that does the same.
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DeepMind AlphaTensor explored 10^33 possibilities and reduced 4x4 matrix multiplication from 49 to 47 steps — breaking a record set in 1969. These algorithms are now baked into NumPy and PyTorch.
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iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, M5 MacBook Pro, M4 iPad Air, AirPods Max 2, Studio Display XDR — Apple dropped 9 new products in a single month. More hardware than most companies ship in a year.
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