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
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