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OpenAI is claiming a landmark moment in mathematics — ten thousand AI agents working together have reportedly produced a proposed solution to one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, a challenge worth one million dollars. The system behind it is GPT-six Astra, an internal model OpenAI describes as more powerful than anything it has publicly released. Mathematicians, however, are pushing back on just how independently the AI reached its conclusions.
That same model is at the center of a broader conversation today, as OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a piece calling GPT-six Astra an, quote, alien mind — something grown rather than designed. Jensen Huang has gone further, calling it AGI. OpenAI insists it is also the most aligned model they have ever built, though they acknowledge the alignment challenges are growing alongside the capabilities.
Meanwhile, in a story that took a decade to arrive, Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is real — and it carries a price tag north of two thousand dollars. Bloomberg reports the device spent ten years in development, a timeline that reflects just how much engineering Apple needed to solve before it felt confident enough to fold its most important product in half.
That is where the headlines stand tonight. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
