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AI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy
On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking, and—naturally—wurst.Having attended several of these events in the past, the mathematicians normally…
IEEE Spectrum AIOct 5, 20266 min read
How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating
The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and…
IEEE Spectrum AISep 29, 20266 min read
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second.
IEEE Spectrum AISep 14, 20268 min read
Why Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses
Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish. Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee.
IEEE Spectrum AISep 14, 20266 min read
AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own text watermark (which Anthropic’s is based on) that it uses on the output of its Gemini models.
IEEE Spectrum AISep 9, 20267 min read