The AI That Scored 100% on the World’s Hardest Math Exam Let me start with the one that actually made me sit up straighter. On July 23, two Chinese tech companies, Huawei and Xiaohongshu, announced their AI models each achieved a perfect score on this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad. For context: 666 contestants from around the world took part. Only seven humans… Read more →
I’ve been watching this industry long enough to know that the real shifts don’t come with fanfare. They come quietly, in benchmark scores and pricing announcements, and they change everything before anyone notices. This week, four of them landed. In just eight days. Four Frontier Launches in Eight Days Let me start with the numbers that made me sit up… Read more →
I’ve been watching this industry long enough to know that the real breakthroughs don’t come with press releases and fanfare. They come quietly, in labs and research papers, and they change everything before anyone notices. This week, three of them landed. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Solved a 50-Year-Old Math Problem in Under an Hour Let me start with the one… Read more →
Let me start with the one that actually made me sit up straighter. Northwestern University engineers built a brain-like electronic device that mimics the cerebellum—the part of your brain that handles reflex reactions without you even thinking about it. Here’s the insight: your cerebellum doesn’t waste energy analyzing every moment. It constantly monitors the world for the unexpected and springs… Read more →
Here’s the thing about watching this industry for years: you learn to spot the real shifts. Not the press releases. Not the hype cycles. The quiet moves that actually change the game. This week, three of them happened. The OpenAI Chip That Changes the Economics of AI Let me start with the one that made me actually sit up straighter.… Read more →
Let me start with a number that made me stop and think: $7 billion. That’s what Microsoft is spending on a natural gas plant in West Texas. Not a data center. A power plant. I’ve been watching the AI space long enough to know that the real bottleneck was never chips. It was always power. Utility interconnect queues now stretch three… Read more →
Let me start with a number that made me do a double-take: $60 billion. That’s what SpaceX just paid to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding platform Cursor. All-stock deal. Expected to close in the third quarter. I’ve been watching this space for years, and I’ll be honest—I didn’t see this coming. A rocket company buying a coding assistant?… Read more →
That’s the analogy that stuck with me after reading about Google’s new experimental model this week. And honestly? It changes everything about how we should think about AI’s future. Let me explain. Google Just Broke the Old Rulebook For years, every major language model has worked the same way: it reads one word, predicts the next, and repeats. Like a… Read more →
Let me tell you about the three things that actually surprised me this week. First, Microsoft quietly declared independence from OpenAI. Second, an AI-designed vaccine just completed human trials for the first time ever. And third, a tiny startup figured out how to turn your regular earbuds into a continuous heart monitor. This isn’t the same AI news we’ve been… Read more →
A personal take on the week AI stopped pretending I’ll be honest: AI news has started feeling like background noise. A new model here, a faster chip there. But this week, a few stories cut through. The kind that make you stop scrolling and just think for a second. The First Digital Human Received a Chinese Residency Card. This one sounds like… Read more →