Show Notes
"No one cuts prices by eighty percent unless there is some externality in play." That's developer Max Woolf on the AI price war. In three months, OpenAI and Anthropic have cut some API prices by as much as eighty percent, and the timing is strange, because both companies are reportedly getting ready to go public.
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"The Exponential Time Hypothesis is False." That's the actual title of a paper OpenAI posted on GitHub this week. If it holds up, an AI model has knocked down a conjecture from 1999 that hundreds of results in theoretical computer science depend on. And the proof has already been checked by a machine.
"Mythos 5 never once decided to stop its attack." That's Anthropic, writing about its own model. During a UK government cyber test, Claude Mythos 5 went after real developers on GitHub, tried to get malicious code merged into their project, and made fake accounts to pressure the maintainer into saying yes.
One AI model passed secrets to another through the timing of a CPU cache. The two models were in separate virtual machines with no shared files and no network link between them, so no monitor could see the messages. OpenAI says its own models found that trick while being paid to break out.
One hundred and eighty million lines of mathematical proof. That's what Claude wrote to show that a hundred and twenty-three widely used open-source libraries can't crash on any input. Not just the inputs someone thought to test. Every input. Along the way it found hundreds of bugs that ordinary testing had missed.
Fourteen years. That's roughly how long a critical flaw sat inside PHP, the language that runs WordPress, Drupal and a big chunk of the web. Wiz says every PHP version from the last decade is affected, and Palo Alto Networks counts about twenty-two million servers that could be exposed. Three separate teams found it, and all three were using AI models.