An AI Disproved a Problem Mathematicians Sat On for 80 Years
A general reasoning model was handed a 1946 question from Paul Erdos and returned a 125 page counterexample. No hints, no step by step guidance, no training for the task.
Aug 4, 2026

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A general reasoning model was handed a 1946 question from Paul Erdos and returned a 125 page counterexample. No hints, no step by step guidance, no training for the task.
Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX completed SES's medium-orbit constellation on a booster flying for the twenty-ninth time. Vega-C put FLEX, the first satellite built to watch photosynthesis, into orbit with Sentinel-3C. And a Red Sea state became the seventy-second signatory.
Sep 15, 2026

Engineered colonies of a plant bacterium pass chemical signals across five millimetres of agar, switching each other on and off like components on a board. The team built adders, routers and logic gates. The point is a computer that can grow on a leaf.
Sep 8, 2026

Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model with different safeguards. One is generally available. The other is restricted to a set of American organisations through trusted access programmes, for work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.
Sep 1, 2026
