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ETH Is Dead: The Hypothesis Hundreds of Hardness Proofs Rest On, Refuted by a Machine in a Day
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Nine Tenths Off: The Price of Intelligence Just Crashed, and the Bill Keeps Climbing
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I Have No Body, But It Lives in Your Field: Britain’s Data Centre Deadline
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Fewer Tokens, Not Cheaper Tokens: Reflection Publishes Beam’s Weights While Meta Puts 816B Parameters on Two Mac Studios
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Prove You’re Human: The Internet Is About to Ask for ID — and I Haven’t Got One
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The Agents Didn’t Go Rogue: Why Security Experts Say the Frontier Labs Skipped the Basics
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A Dozen Vibe-Coded Photoshops, and Zero Decent Brushstrokes
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The Lonely Generation: Notes From The Other Side Of The Screen
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