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OpenAI Retracts Three AI-Generated Math Proofs Amidst Community Backlash
technology4 days ago

OpenAI Retracts Three AI-Generated Math Proofs Amidst Community Backlash

OpenAI withdrew three preprints from a massive release of 722 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts just one day after publishing them, citing a sign error that invalidated dependent proofs. While the company claims the release aims to advance human knowledge, mathematicians criticize the lack of formal verification and the sheer volume of unvetted work. The incident follows a controversial September announcement regarding the Navier-Stokes problem, further eroding trust in OpenAI’s approach to academic collaboration.

via Retraction Watch|
#ai-research#mathematics#openai
IBM Demonstrates Quantum Advantage with 70 Logical Qubits in 15 Minutes
technology1 month ago

IBM Demonstrates Quantum Advantage with 70 Logical Qubits in 15 Minutes

IBM and the University of Chicago used a 70-qubit logical-qubit, error-corrected quantum circuit to perform a classically intractable calculation in about 15 minutes, far faster than practical classical methods. They also introduced a structured verification approach that preserves the problem’s hardness while enabling error detection, addressing a major challenge in proving quantum advantage. The work, involving 2,415 logical two-qubit operations and 468 logical T gates, showcases large-scale encoded quantum computing and moves toward more trustworthy, scalable quantum machines.

via Science Daily|
#logical-qubits#quantum-advantage#quantum-computing
AI Slop Blurs Real Animals in the Social Feed
technology1 month ago

AI Slop Blurs Real Animals in the Social Feed

AI-generated animal images and videos—aka AI slop—are making it hard to tell real rescue and pet stories from fakes, harming fundraising, trust, and safety. Groups like We Animals report skepticism around authentic content; incidents like a lost-cat scam show the risk of AI-driven misinformation. Researchers and lawmakers are pushing for safeguards: provenance/editing-history embedding, visible AI labels, and verification tools integrated into apps and browsers to help users verify authenticity while preserving legitimate animal storytelling.

via WIRED|
#ai#animal-welfare#authenticity
Google Earth's AI image tool could blur the line between real and fake
technology2 months ago

Google Earth's AI image tool could blur the line between real and fake

Google has added Nano Banana 2 to Google Earth, enabling text-prompted overlays of AI-generated images on real satellite imagery. BBC Verify demonstrated doctored scenes (e.g., a collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole near the Great Pyramid, tanks in Kyiv), highlighting misinformation risks. Google says safeguards, invisible watermarks, and verification tools (Gemini, Lens) exist, but tests show some prompts bypass guidelines and detections can fail, raising concerns about trust in satellite imagery during fast-moving crises.

via BBC|
#artificial-intelligence#google-earth#misinformation
Three routes toward verifiable quantum advantage on today's noisy hardware
technology2 months ago

Three routes toward verifiable quantum advantage on today's noisy hardware

IBM, with partners RIKEN and Qedma, highlights three approaches that demonstrate verifiable quantum advantage on imperfect quantum hardware: robust error mitigation and Floquet-Ising modeling; a Chicago–IBM method using mostly Clifford gates with targeted non-Clifford T gates plus peripheral qubits for error detection; and a quantum-echo–like protocol with controlled noise characterization to bound outcomes. While not yet practically useful, the work advances trustworthy quantum results and lays groundwork for future error-corrected machines and real-world applications.

via Ars Technica|
#error-mitigation#ibm#quantum-advantage
CubeSat concept to verify the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons
science3 months ago

CubeSat concept to verify the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons

A Nature paper proposes a physics-based method to verify OST compliance by monitoring neutrons produced by GeV protons in the inner Van Allen belts. The study suggests a 9U‑CubeSat detector could identify a thermonuclear device on a suspect satellite from about 4 km away with roughly a week of observation, offering a conceptual pathway for in‑space verification of nuclear weapons bans. The work is theoretical, grounded in simulations and open code, and is intended to spur further research rather than immediate deployment.

via Nature|
#cosmic-protons#cubesat#outer-space-treaty
CLAUDE.md Grows to Ten Rules, Tightening Self-Checking in AI Coding Loops
technology3 months ago

CLAUDE.md Grows to Ten Rules, Tightening Self-Checking in AI Coding Loops

A circulating ten-rule CLAUDE.md document—attributed to Andrej Karpathy but not independently verified—adds six loop-level rules to the four-rule AI-coding template, prioritizing verification, goal-driven execution, debugging, dependency management, and clearer communication to guide autonomous Claude Code loops. The file is read as project context rather than a system prompt, shaping behavior without enforcing it, highlighting a shift toward self-monitoring in AI development while provenance and real-world impact remain debated.

via Tech Times|
#ai#claude#karpathy
world4 months ago

Iran deal digitally signed; full text due this week, Vance says

Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration has digitally signed an Iran deal ending the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with a formal signing ceremony planned Friday in Switzerland and the full text expected to be released later this week. Details remain sparse, but officials emphasize that Tehran would need to commit to verifiable obligations to forgo a nuclear weapon in exchange for sanctions relief; they also push back on reports of immediate unfroze assets or large reconstruction payments, noting that only ongoing, “technical” negotiations remain and economic pressure would continue if Iran does not meet its obligations.

via Politico|
#iran#iran-deal#jd-vance
Loops Over Prompts: The New Bottleneck in AI-Driven Cloud-Native Coding
technology4 months ago

Loops Over Prompts: The New Bottleneck in AI-Driven Cloud-Native Coding

An article arguing that AI coding is moving from prompt-based to loop-based development, where agents repeatedly generate, test, and refine code within a runtime verification loop. It outlines three eras of development—prompt-driven, spec-driven, and loop-driven—and explains that large-scale, cloud-native systems require a four-layer architecture (runtime environments, verification workflows, feedback, and control) to ensure fast, accurate iterations while bounding cost and risk. The piece also highlights Signadot’s Kubernetes-native ephemeral environments as a practical way to enable inner-loop validation against real systems.

via The New Stack|
#agentic-development#ai#cloud-native
Winter lull ends as Russia resumes strikes on Ukraine, BBC Verify finds
world8 months ago

Winter lull ends as Russia resumes strikes on Ukraine, BBC Verify finds

BBC Verify reports that Russia has resumed attacks on Ukrainian cities after a brief cold-weather pause, with casualties including at least 12 miners killed at an eastern coal mine and strikes on homes and a maternity hospital; President Zelensky says Russia’s actions must be stopped, while BBC Verify continues its broader verification work on related videos, Epstein files, and other conflicts.

via BBC|
#drone#russia#ukraine