New Fields Medal Winner Joins OpenAI Same Day

Jacob Zimmerman, winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, announced his move to OpenAI immediately after the ceremony to work on AI safety. He is known for predicting that AI could lead to human extinction and for classifying such scenarios. Three days earlier, his former student, Levant Alpöge, who works at Anthropic, used Claude Fable 5 to disprove an 87-year-old Jacobi hypothesis.

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Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google DeepMind announced three new AI models: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a specialized 3.5 Flash Cyber. These models aim to boost efficiency, reduce latency, and improve performance in agentic workflows. Gemini 3.6 Flash uses 17% fewer output tokens and is cheaper than its predecessor. 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest model in the 3.5 series, while 3.5 Flash Cyber is designed for cybersecurity.

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