The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence is moving the central AI debate beyond questions of productivity, automation, and machine intelligence toward a more fundamental issue: how much autonomy should advanced AI systems ultimately possess? Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI chief, has recently framed this question in unusually biological terms. He has warned that systems capable of independently pursuing objectives, generating income, controlling assets, and operating businesses could...

For nearly a century, the Navier-Stokes equations have represented one of mathematics’ most stubborn unanswered questions. These equations are central to understanding how fluids move, yet mathematicians have never established whether their three-dimensional solutions must remain smooth forever or can develop singularities in finite time. OpenAI now says an internal artificial intelligence system has produced a proof showing that such a singularity can occur. The company reports that the...

Tencent has introduced Hy4 preview, a large open-source artificial intelligence model designed to tackle demanding work across software engineering, office productivity, financial analysis, game development and scientific research. The release is significant not simply because of the model's scale, but because it reflects a broader transformation in the AI industry, where the competitive frontier is increasingly defined by reasoning depth, long-context processing, agent-like workflows and the...