AI Engineering Signal #121
OpenAI's Astra-next reports Navier-Stokes proof in 88 hours
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OpenAI's Astra-next reports Navier-Stokes proof in 88 hours
frontier proof search now costs over $40M; budget verification and reproducibility separately.
Latent Space
NYU mathematician says OpenAI fought dirty on proof
verification and attribution gates become mandatory before AI-assisted proofs are accepted.
TechCrunch
Hackers steal Claude subscriber tokens
audit shared API keys, set hard usage caps, and watch for token resale.
TechCrunch
Qwen 3.8 27B: 4-bit holds, 1-bit collapses
use 4-bit quantizations for local serving; avoid 1-bit for production inference.
Web
Microsoft team overwhelmed by AI-generated code flood
shift merge gates and code review toward batch triage, not line-by-line inspection.
Web
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas
a high-resolution DNA reference for variant effect models and genomic pretraining.
Web
2.8T model streams from four SSDs on MacBook
SSD offload yields 1 token/s — batch use only, not interactive serving.
GitHub
The Take
AI can now produce publishable math, but verification, provenance, and review capacity are the new constraints — scale those before trusting proofs or flooding merge queues.
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