OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions

OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for hours or even days. CEO Sam Altman has already demoed Astra to policy [...]

AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings

OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics. Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers says GPT 5.6 Pro solved two problems he had spent [...]

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology fr [...]

IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day, investors had wiped roughly $4 [...]

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

The Agentic Reckoning: Enterprise AI organizations have a runtime problem, not a model problem — and most are building the wrong solution

In Q1 2026, VentureBeat's Pulse Research surfaced the “Governance Mirage”: the gap between the governance org charts enterprises had drawn and the control layers they had actually built. Fort [...]

PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x

Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieval. That conversion step destroys retriev [...]

‘Drives me crazy’: iOS 26.4 has fixed an infuriating keyboard bug, but one problem has still gone unsolved

Apple has released an iOS 26.4 beta that fixes keyboard bugs, but some issues remain. [...]

Meta Addresses One Smart Glasses Privacy Problem, but Many Others Remain Unsolved

Meta's aware that its camera glasses are making people worried. A new update aims to prevent tampering with the recording light. But even more is needed. [...]