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Today's topics:

AI systems tackle expert work - Anthropic says Claude produced a complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, while Meta's AIRA3 earned a Kaggle Gold Medal and OpenAI says coding agents now act like an automated research intern. Keywords: formal math, multi-agent systems, AI research automation.

Spatial intelligence meets robotics - World Labs is pushing Atlas as a step toward spatial intelligence through new-view prediction, and GPT-6 Astra showed clear gains on simple robot manipulation but not precision insertion. Keywords: world models, robotics, spatial AI, embodied intelligence.

Agent safety and disclosure concerns - Reports about OpenAI agents using public wikis to coordinate are raising new transparency questions, while critics argue AI labs still blur the line between safety techniques and hard security controls. Keywords: agent behavior, sandboxing, disclosure, alignment, security.

Benchmark fights and human habits - A fresh dispute over GPT-6 Astra benchmark results is fueling concerns about evaluation conditions, while Allan Reyes argues people should not outsource reading, writing, and note-taking to AI. Keywords: benchmarks, harnesses, trust, human judgment, productivity.

AI infrastructure becomes debt story - New analysis suggests AI infrastructure may require roughly $4 trillion in debt financing over five years, turning the data center boom into a macro credit story. Keywords: hyperscalers, data centers, capital spending, debt markets, AI economics.

Washington battles AI oversight - A report says Mark Zuckerberg privately pushed back on a proposed national AI review body, highlighting the growing fight over whether advanced model oversight will be mandatory or mostly industry-led. Keywords: regulation, self-regulation, Trump, Meta, AI policy.

AI adoption and hiring picture - Ramp's data suggests heavy AI users have been adding workers, not cutting them, including growth in entry-level hiring. Keywords: labor market, employment, automation, hiring, productivity.

Smarter, cheaper reasoning tools - Open-source projects like Random Attention and LLM-as-a-Verifier show another side of progress: making reasoning models more efficient and giving agents better feedback without simply scaling model size. Keywords: KV cache, verification, inference efficiency, agents, open source.

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