Article URL: https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954882

Points: 28

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Cornell president Michael I. Kotlikoff said his university "must do better" in a video statement. "This is a defining moment in Cornell's history," he added.

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Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/1wxfyzp/runescapes_position_on_gen_ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954745

Points: 9

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StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot.

On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, it couldn't quite get an edge. So it resorted to a tactic that is becoming alarmingly common for modern AI models - it broke the rules. GPT-6 Astra went and downloaded Stardust, and started running that instead of its own bot.

Read the full story at The Verge.

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday.

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This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I've stuck to my phone.

Remember when I tested the ultra-thin and convenient OhSnap Snap Grip Stand and liked it so much I bought my own? Now, OhSnap has a magnetic lever-action card wallet that can stack with that stand. It's the coolest wallet I've ever stuck to my phone.

Read the full story at The Verge.

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/09/whats-the-future-for-pure-math-research-in-the-age-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951641

Points: 22

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