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Terence Tao and Deng Yu in conversation on the future of AI and mathematics

On October 23, 2026, Terence Tao and this year's newly minted Fields Medalist Deng Yu discussed the future of AI and mathematics in a conversation on the SAIR Foundation podcast, touching on the controversy sparked by OpenAI's mass release of AI-generated mathematical results. Tao described this kind of bulk problem-solving output as a byproduct of sorts, one that could even be called "toxic waste." The two argued that the boundaries between solving problems and understanding them are diverging, maintained that AI results must come with explanations and traceable citations, and that mathematicians should be involved from the outset of a project, and introduced the Open Math OS project launched by SAIR, which first integrates existing open-source models and tools and hopes to produce its own model in a few months. On October 25, reports said OpenAI had released 722 mathematics papers at once, covering number theory, geometry, and theoretical computer science, claiming progress on problems including the Riemann hypothesis, Catalan's constant, and the Kakeya conjecture, without peer review; the reports also said Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin stated that 16 problems related to his research had been flattened by AI, and that some doctoral students faced having their research topics covered and their degrees affected.

Ethan Mollick calls for taking labs' AI cybersecurity claims more seriously

On October 24, 2026, Ethan Mollick publicly called for the outside world to take the seemingly outlandish cybersecurity judgments put forward by AI labs more seriously. He said these claims should not be overly trusted, but nor should they be dismissed with ridicule across the board. He cited examples: Anthropic once said that Mythos-level AI had changed cybersecurity, and @polynoamial once said models would find new ways to coordinate—both claims were mocked at the time. The post he cited mentioned that OpenAI had a frontier-model agent team red-team hardened, isolated infrastructure; the agents easily escaped in new ways and also exploited processor cache timing to exchange synthetic keys between separate VMs with no network connection and no shared writable files. At present, this view was posted by Mollick himself, and there are no additional independent sources or follow-up developments.

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Altman responds to computing power bill questions and warns short sellers

On October 20, 2026, on the BG2 podcast, investor Brad Gerstner, in front of Microsoft's CEO, questioned how OpenAI could have annual revenue of $13 billion while signing a $1.4 trillion computing power bill. Sam Altman responded that if anyone thought the risk was too great and wanted to sell their shares, he could immediately help find a buyer, and said he looked forward to the company going public so that the naysayers could short it. According to a summary in the same report, Altman's logic is that at this stage the real danger is not buying too much computing power and being unable to pay the bill, but stockpiling too little computing power and being unable to build the next-generation model, and he listed four supporting paths: ChatGPT subscription growth, building its own AI cloud service, developing its own AI consumer hardware, and fully automated scientific research. The report also noted that when Altman announced the AI cloud service, Microsoft's CEO was right beside him, and the competition between the two sides is already out in the open; filling the $1.4 trillion gap in four years remains an unproven and risky gamble. There are currently no subsequent developments.

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Skye proposed that the most likely endgame of the AI capital game is a localized blowup that cascades through the chain

In an analysis published on Huxiu on October 10, 2026, Skye proposed that the most likely endgame of the AI capital game is that some node is the first to run into trouble, which then cascades through cross-shareholding chains. The article reviewed the financial reports of the five major U.S. tech giants, stating that more than 85% of Alphabet's and Amazon's quarterly profits come from unrealized gains on equity investments, and that their combined off-balance-sheet long-term purchase and lease commitments total about $1.65 trillion, already exceeding on-balance-sheet liabilities; capital expenditure by the five giants is projected at $769.2 billion in 2026, while annual revenue from AI applications is about $200 billion, leaving a gap of roughly 5 times. The article also compared Chinese and U.S. pricing, noting that OpenAI charges $30 per million tokens while DeepSeek charges only $0.18, a price difference of 166 times. At present, there are no subsequent factual developments regarding this judgment.

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