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OpenAI announced its models have generated proofs for the local smoothing conjecture in all dimensions, a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and an existence proof for quantum chromodynamics, advancing discoveries in math, CS, and physics.
Google researchers demonstrated a technique on the Willow processor that cuts quantum errors roughly 40-fold, overcoming a 20-year bottleneck in quantum computing as detailed in a landmark Science paper.
Startup Trajectory secured $45 million to build tools that make advanced AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts, lowering barriers in the expanding AI landscape.
An AI system called BootLoops helped researchers produce 36 papers in three months, solving novel math problems and revealing insights like sunspot 'aging' by bridging fields from ecology to astrophysics.
Deep Principle unveiled Hydrogen-1.0, a 753B parameter open-weight AI model specialized for chemistry, materials science, and life sciences, built on domain-specific data and lab trajectories.
Y Combinator's latest request for startups highlights stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization, and AI-agent financial tools as priorities, noting institutions now lead crypto adoption with needs like oil hedging and cross-border transfers.
NASA's two ESCAPADE probes will each execute a novel powered gravity-assist flyby of Earth this week—combining planetary gravity with engine burns—to gain speed and redirect toward Mars for plasma and magnetic field studies.
The newly operational Vera Rubin Observatory has already identified two additional dim satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, expanding our understanding of the galaxy's surroundings.
Despite crypto price weakness, the underlying blockchain infrastructure market continues robust growth toward $611 billion, driven by stablecoins, tokenized assets, and enterprise adoption.
Major indices closed mixed with the Nasdaq down over 1% on renewed weakness in semiconductor and mega-cap tech stocks, as investors question the sustainability of AI-related capital expenditures following recent earnings.
Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies declined amid the fallout from the reported $6.3 billion Binance hack attributed to North Korean actors, while broader risk-off sentiment from tech earnings weighed on digital assets.
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope indicate where the seeds of the universe's earliest supermassive black holes may have formed, offering clues to cosmic evolution shortly after the Big Bang.