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An unreleased Anthropic model pushed the Riemann hypothesis further than anyone expected
Anthropic says an unreleased model raised the lower bound on the Riemann hypothesis after running for about a day and a half across 60 coordinated sub-agents and 650 candidate approaches. Two staff mathematicians confirmed the result and it was formalised in Lean.
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Apple is building a way to prove your iPhone photo is real
Code in the iOS 27 beta describes Apple Reference Image, a system that would embed provenance data into photos at capture so they can later be verified as camera-made rather than AI-generated. It would ship switched off and verify through Private Cloud Compute.
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Samsung's Galaxy S27 Pro camera downgrade looks entirely deliberate
The Galaxy S27 Pro is set to carry a 12MP 3x telephoto while the Ultra drops its 3x entirely in favour of a 50MP 5x periscope, leaving the two hard to compare directly. A more capable ALoP prototype for the Pro appears to have been shelved to protect the Ultra's position.
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Joby spends $500M on Resonant Sciences to stand up a defence arm
Joby Aviation is paying $500 million in cash and stock for Resonant Sciences, an Ohio maker of RF and sensing hardware, and folding its defence projects into a new division under Resonant's chief executive. The deal adds roughly $100 million in annual revenue and access to classified US programmes.
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Media3 1.11 pushes Android playback deeper into Compose
Media3 1.11 expands the Compose UI modules with slot-based player layouts, gesture controls, new state holders and a PlayerPool for short-form video feeds. The Cast extension gains programmatic configuration and system output switcher support, alongside a Ktor network extension and Ogg and WAV muxing.
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Courts in England and Wales bar Meta's smart glasses at the door
Courts in England and Wales will confiscate Meta's smart glasses at the door and return them on the way out. Recording in a courtroom is already an offence, and the glasses can film without anyone present knowing.
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Delta investigates a counterfeit Wi-Fi network set up mid-flight
A passenger on a Las Vegas to Atlanta flight allegedly ran a Wi-Fi network impersonating the aircraft's own, and the crew shut the real one down for about half an hour. Delta says no aircraft systems were affected.
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Rivian's founder is building EVs, chargers and humanoid robots at once
RJ Scaringe is running Rivian's push to Level 4 autonomy by 2028, a national charging network, and a humanoid robotics company that has raised $900 million this year — with the R2 SUV carrying the near-term burden.
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Driving in headphones: legal in most of the US, sensible almost nowhere
No US state bans headphones behind the wheel outright, but rules differ by state and by how many ears are covered — and distracted driving law can catch you where the headphone rules do not.
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FlightAware sues Kalshi over bets settled with its flight data
FlightAware is suing prediction market Kalshi, saying it used the tracker's data and branding to settle bets on flight cancellations without permission — and that such markets create an incentive to interfere with flights.
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Kyoto Fusioneering wins US backing for the part of fusion nobody photographs
Kyoto Fusioneering has won US Department of Energy and Tennessee grants to build Unity-3, a prototype breeding blanket, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — and is moving its American headquarters there. Four other fusion startups plan to design against its results.
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What Reddit's ad platform still lacks, according to the people buying it
An agency performance team lists twelve gaps in Reddit's ad platform, drawn from limits they hit on live campaigns: privacy-safe reach for anonymous users, B2B and intent audiences, reliable retargeting, exclusions, forecasting, self-serve incrementality, CRM integrations, native formats and an ad library.
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