AI news weekend roundup 🧵
GPT-5.2 just made an original discovery in theoretical physics.
ByteDance dropped a model that beats GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro at 1/10th the price.
The Pentagon might cut Anthropic's $200M deal, and more.
Here's everything you might've missed:
GPT-5.2 independently discovered a new math formula in particle physics and formally proved it was correct.
It found that an existing answer in the field was actually wrong, then wrote the proof autonomously in 12 hours.
ByteDance released Seed 2.0, a new model that competes with GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro across benchmarks.
This follows last week's viral Seedance 2.0 video model, which is now getting hit with cease-and-desists from Hollywood over copyrighted content.
The Pentagon is considering cutting Anthropic's $200M defense deal because it won't agree to broader usage policies for the military.
This comes after the WSJ revealed that Claude played a role in the U.S. capture of Venezuela's Nicholas Maduro.
Spotify CEO Gustav Soderstrom said the company's top developers haven't written a single line of code manually this year.
His words: they're "all in" on AI-assisted development.
Alpha School's 2-hour, AI-first academic model has students scoring 99th percentile across virtually every grade and subject.
One of the best early test cases of AI disrupting education.
Simile raised $100M to build AI simulations modeled on real people to predict customer decisions.
Big names backing include Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy 👀
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