Wolfram is offering a total of $20,000 in prize money to determine if the S combinator is universal. Statement of problem to be solved, full guidelines, committee of judges and submission guidelines.
Noam Brown on Twitter / X
And yes we did try other major problems without success. Sadly no Millennium Prize problems (yet).But also, we didn’t spend a lot on each problem. It’s possible to push test-time compute much further.— Noam Brown (@polynoamial) August 1, 2026
"statistically reasonable maximum" - microcosm
How many entries can a Merkle Search Tree node have? An attempt to answer with half a million atproto repositories & two coin flips.
Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot.
Pricing — In a Moon
See how your kudos pool distributes among creators you appreciate.
Checkers Is Solved
The game of checkers has roughly 500 billion billion possible positions (5 × 1020). The task of solving the game, determining the final result in a game with no mistakes made by either player, is daunting. Since 1989, almost continuously, dozens of ...
Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Google's TPU Paradox
Why the massive Anthropic deal ($50-80 billion over six years) is a map to a thousand-customer problem.
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science
The Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science is a $30M global initiative to accelerate scientific breakthroughs that improve human health and build climate resilience.
Deedy on Twitter / X
The International Math Olympiad (IMO) 2026, the hardest math contest for high schoolers, just ended.I ran Fable (high), Sol (xhigh), K3 (max) and Axiom against it and all got a perfect score of 42/42 (repo below if you want to check their solutions):— Claude Fable 5 was the… pic.twitter.com/6oH7FiAjEP— Deedy (@deedydas) July 21, 2026
BICS Essay Contest Winners
The winners were chosen based on the power of the arguments presented and on how persuasively the essays made the case for survival of human consciousness beyond a reasonable doubt as though you were in a courtroom. While the judges were reading and re-reading the 204 submitted essays, they were conscious of the great responsibility of choosing the top three. The judges chose these principal winners with exquisite care.
A group from work decided to challenge each other to the #256fes challenge. I modeled a Frieren for it
