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Back to EpisodesAI Capability Claims Keep Outrunning Verification — Jul 20
Published 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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Two disputed AI capability claims land the same day: a 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen preview with no benchmarks, and a hand-checkable counterexample to a 140-year-old math conjecture from Claude Fable 5, sharpening the case that no vendor claim ships without outside verification. Huawei publicly demos its Atlas 950 supernode as WAIC closes in Shanghai, and the EU orders Google to open Android's AI layer to rival assistants. Plus Claude Code's quiet Rust migration and the real, opaque cost of running an agent research harness.