Month: September 2026
AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat’s Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required
The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026
A collection of headphone manufacturers and fans come together for their love of great sound. | Image: CanJam Global I’ve been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I’ve listened to everything from the barely serviceable to multi-thousand-dollar open-back headphones. But recently I’ve been uninspired by the state of mainstream options. Most are perfectly good … Read more
British investor thought he lost $2,000 in bitcoin in 2012. He just recovered $4.5 million
CEL Solicitors says it has identified a wallet holding more than 5,500 BTC linked to former Intersango users.
OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the “‘wiki incident,’ where our agents wrote to several internet sites,” OpenAI wrote … Read more
Robotaxis enter their villain era
It’s Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn’t human – and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have … Read more
Poland upholds crypto bill veto as Zondacrypto scandal widens
Polish lawmakers failed to overturn a presidential veto of crypto legislation as the Zondacrypto investigation expands and its Estonian operator enters bankruptcy.
The AI Writing “Witch Hunt” Is a Huge Waste of Everyone’s Time
Why fighting AI-generated text protects human mediocrity rather than intellectual depth. Lately, the media and writing platforms have developed a peculiar obsession: they have all started fiercely fighting texts created by artificial intelligence. The battle ranges from mandatory declarations in submission forms stating that AI had nothing to do with your text to special algorithms … Read more
What Internal AI Projects Teach You That No Guide Will, Part 1
Anyone who has ever built an enterprise AI application knows the feeling: you look at the first promising tests, the team is excited, everything seems to go to plan. But a few sprints in, the project just stalls, and not for technical reasons. I want to explain why working prototypes fail. A large part of … Read more
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $3.8B in strongest three-week stretch of 2026
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in the latest week as Friday inflows stayed positive despite Bitcoin briefly falling below $79,000.
Your AI Agent Has a System Prompt. But Will It Keep the Bowtie?
An AI agent can tell you its name. It can publish a list of capabilities. It can expose an Agent Card. Its developer can describe its role, permissions, model, tools and intended behavior. But none of those things tell us what kind of actor it becomes once it starts operating. As software gets more agentic, … Read more
Git hosting that never leaves Europe
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Industrial MLOps as a Distributed Operating Model
Industrial MLOps is the discipline of managing ML systems across distributed environments with different trust boundaries, operational constraints, and availability requirements. When people talk about MLOps, they often imagine a fairly straightforward lifecycle. A team trains a model, validates it, packages it, and deploys it to production. Even if the infrastructure is split into development, … Read more
The Demotion Ladder: A Year of Governing Claude Code
I thought that if I wrote my feedback down, the agent would work through it like a checklist. And for a while that theory held. Every time I caught something in review, I’d write the rule into a doc, and the next run would be a bit better than the last one. With two or … Read more
XRP Ledger has fewer active accounts than last year, but bigger trades and more value
Daily order-book traders fell about 40% from a year ago while volume rose 79%, as the value held on XRPL climbed above $4 billion.
Southeast Asia’s crypto funding rebounds to $680 million as investors focus on mature firms
Blockchain investment in Southeast Asia in 2026 has been led by crypto financial services, though funding remains heavily concentrated in Singapore and a handful of companies.
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
TikTok’s Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers.
Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2. Many quick-service restaurants spread ordering across an app, a website, a phone line, and the counter. Each of those is a separate system to build and run. Each one also fragments the customer’s history, making … Read more
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
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Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn’t nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to … Read more
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures.
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.