OpenAI’s LLM just earned a gold medal at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)—a milestone that many AI researchers once thought was a decade away. The experimental reasoning model, run under the same 4½‑hour, no‑internet rules as human contestants, solved five of the six problems and scored 35 out of 42 points, comfortably above this year’s gold cut‑off. Three former […]| NATURAL 20
Playground of the Gods: DeepMind’s Dream‑Machine for Playable Worlds Google DeepMind has always treated video games as both a proving ground and a preview of tomorrow’s real‑world AI. Now, cryptic hints from Demis Hassabis and a flurry of insider leaks point to a far more audacious project: a neural network that doesn’t just play games but dreams them into […]| NATURAL 20
An Ideal Laboratory for Self‑Improving Agents Settlers of Catan looks disarmingly simple—collect wood, sheep, brick, wheat, and ore, then build roads and settlements. Yet the game’s soul is negotiation and long‑term planning under uncertainty, exactly the kind of challenge that has tripped up many reinforcement‑learning systems. Dice inject randomness, opponents conceal their intentions, and every trade reshapes […]| NATURAL 20
The Billion‑Dollar Scramble for AI Coding Assistants The loudest signal that software careers are far from over is the money. Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have been writing checks in the three‑ to nine‑billion‑dollar range for startups such as Windsurf, Cursor, and Pi. Their motives go beyond grabbing clever autocomplete widgets. Each acquisition secures a live stream of developer […]| NATURAL 20