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OpenAI has released hundreds of AI-generated maths manuscripts, and mathematicians are reacting, with some raising concerns about how the results were released and whether they are understood. The New York Times is reported to have covered the reaction, but its full article could not be retrieved for this check.
Georgetown University and University of Washington researchers found that people who read inaccurate AI-generated video summaries recalled details correctly only 44.8% of the time, versus 83.6% for those given accurate summaries. The effect held even when participants were told the summary was AI-generated, and the researchers found frequent omissions of critical details across the summaries analyzed. The findings are due to be presented at the AAAI/ACM AI, Ethics and Society conference in October 2026.
Anthropic said its AI agents independently found new enzymes it called ARTs by mining biological databases, but computational biologist Mario Rodríguez Mestre says his team had studied the same 'jumbotron' systems for four years and analysed the underlying data over a year before Anthropic's announcement. Mestre notes he had shared his research with Claude for years, making it impossible to verify the AI reasoned to the result independently rather than drawing on his prior work.
OpenAI's ChatGPT-6 Astra autonomously solved a 1941 Enigma-coded message that had sat unsolved online since 2005, completing the task in two days. Before attempting the cryptanalysis, the model independently wrote Python and C++ code to build an Enigma simulator and a Bombe cracker — with no human guidance on how to proceed. The achievement is a concrete demonstration of frontier AI designing its own tools and applying them to open-ended, multi-step problems entirely autonomously.
UK angle: Enigma code-breaking is foundational to British computing history through Bletchley Park and Alan Turing; an AI surpassing prior efforts at the same problem carries strong resonance for UK readers.
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