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OpenAI says its latest reasoning model has disproved a geometry conjecture that stumped mathematicians for eighty years — and crucially, the same researchers who called out the company's last embarrassing math blunder are now standing behind this one. That independent validation matters. A lot.
Shifting to something with much larger implications, Google's IO keynote this week raised serious questions about the future of the open web. Critics argue the company is aggressively routing users through AI-generated answers rather than outward to the sites that produced the underlying information — a quiet but consequential reordering of how knowledge flows online.
And in what might be the most striking story of the day, de-extinction startup Colossal says its artificial womb technology for supporting mammal development is nearly complete. The company's CEO says they're at the one-yard line. Whether that means resurrecting woolly mammoths or something else entirely, the biological and ethical terrain here is genuinely uncharted.
Three very different stories, but each one a reminder that the choices being made in labs and boardrooms right now will land somewhere most of us haven't thought through yet. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
