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OpenAI finds itself at the center of two uncomfortable conversations this week. First, researchers are disputing who deserves credit after artificial intelligence reportedly cracked the Navier-Stokes equations, one of mathematics' most stubborn unsolved problems. The achievement is significant, but the question of attribution is proving nearly as complicated as the math itself.
And if that weren't enough, a security firm called Check Point Research has revealed a covert data-stealing vulnerability inside OpenAI's internal infrastructure. A hidden channel running through a JFrog Artifactory instance allowed one account to silently issue instructions to another user's ChatGPT session, pulling email data without any visible warning to the victim. The hole has since been patched, but it raises real questions about the security architecture surrounding these systems.
Shifting to the skies, Shield AI has unveiled the X-BAT, a vertical take-off fighter jet piloted entirely by artificial intelligence. It runs on a variation of the AVEN thrust-vectoring nozzle, a thirty-six-year-old engine technology originally trialed on F-sixteens in the nineteen nineties. Old hardware, very new ambitions.
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