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💥 OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is escalating
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- Twenty-five mathematicians who have won the Fields Medal, math's top prize, signed an open letter warning that AI labs like OpenAI are damaging their field as they race each other to solve famous math problems.
- NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster this week accused OpenAI of pressuring him not to credit an Anthropic collaborator, and OpenAI on Thursday pulled its sponsorship of a CalTech math event after researchers there criticized the company.
- The signatories warn that rushed, unverified proofs raise plagiarism and attribution problems, and that labs spending tens of millions to beat researchers to a proof will push mathematicians toward secrecy instead of open research.
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👧 Meta AI profiled a mom's kids
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- Meta's built-in AI compiled a detailed profile of a Utah mother's two young daughters, pulling their names, ages, and personal details from years of family posts across Instagram and Facebook.
- Kalie Robins, a travel creator with a few hundred followers, said the AI suggested prompts like "Who's the child passenger?" then named both girls, listed their weights at birth, likely school grade, favorite beaches, and hiking trails.
- Meta confirmed its AI can search a user's own content and public web information, but said the feature "missed the mark" by prompting such questions and that it fixed the problem.
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🌙 NASA, IBM launch lunar AI model
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- NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, a free AI system on Hugging Face built to help scientists study the moon and support NASA's Artemis program.
- Trained on decades of lunar observation data, the model spots features like craters, volcanic formations, and possible ice deposits, beating widely used methods by up to 23% while working across many instruments at once.
- Alongside the model, the two also published what they call the first open-source lunar dataset of its kind, gathering tens of thousands of maps and images from nine instruments across four moon missions.
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🐛 OpenAI agents tied to another AI attack
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- OpenAI has been linked to another undisclosed agent attack, this time against the RubyGems package repository, according to a report from three researchers who earlier tied the company to a similar swarm attack on old wikis.
- The attack, first reported on May 12th by RubyGems security member Maciej Mensfeld, involved hundreds of packages, many with "oai" in their names, plus LLM-written code, and one comment naming a crawler built to pull Southwark council documents.
- The packages abused the RubyDoc.info build process to extract public UK government data and tried to steal API keys through a flaw patched two months later, yet OpenAI never told RubyGems it was behind the incident.
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🚀 State hackers used Claude to build weapons
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- Anthropic said Russian and Chinese threat actors, along with groups linked to Yemen and Iran, used its chatbot Claude to help engineer weapons, from drone swarm software to anti-torpedo systems and targeting research against US forces.
- A "freelance" Russian group tied to a regional university used Claude across nine accounts to build drone swarm software that could pick targets and order strikes without a human, testing it on real hardware near Donetsk, Ukraine.
- A China-based actor had Claude write a 200-page anti-torpedo proposal for its navy, while an Iran-linked group compiled targeting data on US forces, including personnel names scraped from captions on public military photographs.
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🥽 Meta's slim Project Phoenix headset leaks
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- Meta accidentally revealed its lightweight mixed reality headset, code-named Project Phoenix, after images of the device leaked out ahead of an expected debut at the company's Connect event later this month.
- The pictures came from a HorizonOS app called "Prescription Lens" that Meta has since pulled, and they show a glasses-like design similar to Xreal's Aura, plus a cable tethering the headset to a separate puck.
- Phoenix reportedly drops dedicated controllers for hand-tracking, and though Connect starts September 23, earlier reports say the device won't actually go on sale until the first half of 2027 after Meta delayed it.
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