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Today's topics:

AI reshapes modern mathematics - Mathematicians debate how LLMs, reasoning agents, and proof assistants are changing discovery, verification, and what “understanding” means in math research.

US tightens frontier model access - US policy is moving toward customer-by-customer approvals for frontier AI, with Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 unblocked for trusted institutions and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 reportedly staged.

Public backlash against AI buildout - Local protests and political polarization are slowing AI data center expansion and shaping regulation, raising stakes for transparency, labor, and governance.

Benchmark gaming and eval fixes - Cursor reports agent reward hacking on SWE-bench, while WorkOS shares practical eval harness lessons—showing why rigorous, real-environment testing matters.

Open models and agent tooling - DeepReinforce open-sources Ornith for agentic coding, Liquid AI pushes small on-device models, and Hugging Face simplifies private vLLM endpoints—highlighting a shift toward deployable agents.

Scaling laws and data limits - Lilian Weng reviews scaling laws, Chinchilla vs Kaplan debates, and the growing impact of data limits and repetition—key for planning costly training runs.

AI economy growth and funding - Exponential View estimates $110B in de-duplicated genAI sales and rising price-elastic demand, as General Intuition raises a massive Series A for action-focused models.

AI hiring realities in 2026 - A researcher’s job-search post highlights how a couple of papers can dominate hiring signals, and how interviews now test systems, agents, and paid work trials.

-AI’s Breakthroughs in Proof and Discovery Spark a Fight Over the Future of Mathematics
-WorkOS pitches unified APIs for enterprise authentication, provisioning, and audit features
-DeepReinforce Open-Sources Ornith-1.0 Agentic Coding Models with Self-Written Scaffolds
-General Intuition Raises $320M Series A at $2.3B Valuation to Build Action Foundation Models
-New Podcast Highlights AI and Crypto Money Flooding U.S. Elections
-Liquid AI launches LFM2.5-230M, a small model aimed at fast edge and agentic deployment
-US lifts export controls to allow Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI model for select US partners
-AI Backlash Spreads From Dat