An Impromptu AI News Dump
A wild few days in the world of fake smarts, so here’s a convenient compendium
I was going to save these for our usual Thursday “Texted Discoveries of the Week” feature, but there’s so much here that’s timely. We also are seeing our first AI bankruptcy. It feels like we’re crossing a threshold . . .
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
Davide Castelvecchi
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else’s “creative spark” to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
Jackson Healy
Mathematicians Create Nonprofit Archive for AI-Generated Proofs arXiv Declined to Host
AI-generated mathematical proofs now have a formal home: Hexagon, a nonprofit preprint repository launched October 2026 by leading mathematicians including Fields Medalist Terence Tao, accepts submissions where the contributor claims no human understanding of the result - filling a gap arXiv
Ethan Ingamells
‘Cerebral torment’: IOP retracts nearly 100 conference papers for tortured phrases
IOP Publishing has retracted nearly 100 papers from three of its conference proceedings after the articles were flagged for containing tortured phrases. Tortured phrases are rephrasings and s…
Guillaume Cabanac
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
Thibault Spirlet
AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
Joseph Cox
