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- 0:00Imagine an Olympic sprinter breaking a world record, only
- 0:03for a rival to quietly step onto the track the very next day and
- 0:08shatter that new record 9 times over.
- 0:11Well, that is exactly what just happened in the world of
- 0:14artificial intelligence. Welcome back to today's AI News,
- 0:17brought to you by 9X Productions.
- 0:20It really is just a stunning sequence of events, you know, It
- 0:25completely reframes where we thought the absolute boundaries
- 0:28of machine logic were resting. Yeah, so our mission for today's
- 0:31Deep Dive is to basically unpack all of this for you.
- 0:34We've been pouring over a massive stack of new AI
- 0:37developments. Right, giving you the quick hits
- 0:39on what's changing at the highest levels of tech.
- 0:41Exactly. But more importantly, we really
- 0:43want to look at how real people are applying this to their daily
- 0:46lives right now. We want to shortcut your path to
- 0:48being perfectly informed. So we should just jump straight
- 0:51into the biggest story. Let's do it.
- 0:53So last week we all saw the headlines open.
- 0:55AI solved an 80 year old math problem and urges conjecture.
- 1:00Which, I mean, was huge news on its own.
- 1:02Totally huge, but literally one day later Google DeepMind
- 1:06quietly drops Alpha Proof Nexus and this system autonomously
- 1:12solved 9 open errors problems. Nine of them, not just one.
- 1:19And we really need to emphasize here that these aren't just like
- 1:22difficult algebra equations. These are considered some of the
- 1:25absolute hardest unsolved questions in higher mathematics.
- 1:28Specifically spanning combinatorics and graph theory,
- 1:31right? Exactly.
- 1:32Which, just to make sure we're all on the same page here,
- 1:34Combinatorics is essentially the math of counting and arranging
- 1:37things in complex sets, right? Spot on.
- 1:39And graph theory is about networks, you know, studying how
- 1:41nodes connect to other nodes. They're incredibly abstract,
- 1:45conceptual puzzles. Yeah, and two of the problems
- 1:47Alpha Proof Nexus solved have been completely unsolved for 56
- 1:50years. Generations of brilliant math
- 1:52emissions have tried and failed. And on top of that, Google also
- 1:56used the system to prove 44 open conjectures from the Online
- 1:59Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
- 2:01OK wait, I have to stop you there and just push back on the
- 2:04logistics of this because when I hear that an AI solves 1/2
- 2:07century old math problem, my brain immediately goes to a
- 2:11massive supercomputer warehouse. Oh, like thousands of GPU's just
- 2:16running red hot. Exactly.
- 2:17Just brute forcing a combination lock and burning through a small
- 2:21town's worth of electricity. I mean, how much does a 56 year
- 2:25old math breakthrough cost nowadays?
- 2:27Well, that is the genuinely shocking part of the research
- 2:30papers we reviewed. The data shows it only cost a
- 2:33few $100 per problem in compute power.
- 2:36Wait a few $100 Are you serious? I could buy a nice blender for
- 2:39that. I know, right?
- 2:40It's wild. How does half a century of
- 2:43advanced mathematical struggle equal the cost of a kitchen
- 2:46appliance? It basically comes down to this
- 2:48brilliant architectural choice. You see, they didn't just ask an
- 2:52AI to guess the answer. OK, what did they do?
- 2:55They paired a large language model with a system called Lean,
- 2:59and Lean is a formal proofs assistant.
- 3:01So it's kind of like a ruthlessly strict math teacher
- 3:05who gives zero credit unless every single micro step of the
- 3:10equation is shown and logically sound.
- 3:13That is a erfect analogy. Actually.
- 3:15The LLM acts as the highly creative, highly intuitive
- 3:18student who throws out a creative hypothesis for how to
- 3:21solve the problem. Right.
- 3:23An Lean acts as the strict teacher.
- 3:26The LOM submits a proposed step and Lean checks it with absolute
- 3:30mathematical certainty. And if the logic fails.
- 3:32Lean rejects it entirely, but here's the magic part.
- 3:35The LLM learns why it failed, adjusts its approach, and then
- 3:39tries again. Oh wow, so it's a closed
- 3:41iterative loop of formal verification.
- 3:44Exactly. It just loops at machine speed
- 3:46until a complete proof passes. So it's not brute forcing the
- 3:48answer at all. It's essentially brute forcing
- 3:50the scientific method, generating hypothesis and
- 3:53testing them instantly. That's exactly what it's doing
- 3:55now. The researchers didn't know that
- 3:56they tested a Simler version of this agent, and while it
- 3:59eventually matched the results, it took way more compute and
- 4:01actually cost more to run because it went down South many
- 4:04inefficient paths that. Makes sense?
- 4:06And it's also imortant to clarify the limitations here.
- 4:09Problems that require entirely new mathematical constructions,
- 4:14meaning inventing a completely new type of math to solve the
- 4:17problem. Those are still out of reach.
- 4:19But for existing mathematical frameworks, this loop of
- 4:22generation and formal verification is just
- 4:25revolutionary. Right, because it means the
- 4:27bottlenecks for researchers just disappear.
- 4:29Yeah. And if you have a system that
- 4:31can Florida State verify abstract mathematical logic, you
- 4:34essentially have the perfect engine for auditing other
- 4:37complex logic based systems. You're just swapping math
- 4:40theorems for software architecture.
- 4:42Which leads a seamlessly into our next massive development.
- 4:46Yes, Entropic just shared the 1st results from Project Glass
- 4:49Wing using a model called Claude Mythos Preview and the numbers
- 4:52here are honestly staggering. They really are.
- 4:55I mean, in just one single month of beta testing, Claude Mythos
- 4:59and about 50 partner organizations found over 10,000
- 5:03high or critical severity vulnerabilities in software
- 5:06code. 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in 30 days.
- 5:09That is insane. It is.
- 5:11Cloudflare alone used it to find 2000 bugs, and their data show
- 5:15the AI's false positive rate was actually better than human
- 5:18testers. Better than humans.
- 5:20Wow and Mozilla used it to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities
- 5:25hidden specifically in Firefox 150.
- 5:27Yeah, and Anthropic also took it upon themselves to scan over
- 5:301000 popular open source projects.
- 5:33Mythos flagged over 6200 of them as having high or critical
- 5:38issues. And what's crazy is that when
- 5:39independent human reviewers came in to triage those flags, 62% of
- 5:44them, which is nearly 3900 bugs, actually held up as legitimate
- 5:48critical threats. So it's essentially automating
- 5:51the absolute highest level of cybersecurity auditing.
- 5:54Right. And the real world applications
- 5:55are immediate, like one partner bank actually used Mythos to
- 5:59detect a highly sophisticated exploit and successfully blocked
- 6:03a $1.5 million fraudulent wire transfer in real time.
- 6:08Which is incredible, but I feel like there's a flip side to
- 6:11this. Yeah, I have to play devil's
- 6:12advocate here for a second. You are talking about an AI
- 6:15digging through millions of lines of code to find critical
- 6:19zero day vulnerabilities, right? And for anyone unfamiliar, a
- 6:23zero day is basically a secret trapdoor or a fatal flaw in
- 6:26software that the original creators don't even know exists
- 6:29yet. So if this model is this
- 6:32incredibly good at finding those unknown exploits, isn't
- 6:35Anthropic basically building a master hacker in a box?
- 6:39That is a very valid concern. Like you're giving an AI the
- 6:42ability to find the weakest point in any digital armor.
- 6:45Why are they keeping this locked up and only releasing it to
- 6:48select partners? Well, that raises A vital point,
- 6:51and it's exactly why Anthropic is keeping Mythos heavily gated
- 6:54right now. Yeah, they openly admit in their
- 6:56documentation that no company, not even Anthropic themselves
- 7:00currently, he has safeguards strong enough to prevent this
- 7:02kind of capability from being misused.
- 7:04So it's too dangerous to just release.
- 7:06Exactly. If a bad actor gets their hands
- 7:08on an autonomous agent that can spot 0 day vulnerabilities
- 7:11faster than an entire human security team, the damage to
- 7:15global infrastructure could be catastrophic.
- 7:17It's the ultimate double edged sword.
- 7:19A tool that can perfectly defend a system is naturally also the
- 7:23perfect tool to break into it. Yeah, but the broader context
- 7:26here is the impending global arms race.
- 7:29I mean, Anthropic can gate Mythos all they want, but Open
- 7:32AI is rapidly ramping up its own cyber focus models.
- 7:35And major Chinese tech players are catching up incredibly fast,
- 7:38right? Right.
- 7:40These capabilities will inevitably emerge on the broader
- 7:43open market, and when they do, the ultimate test won't be
- 7:47whether AI can find the bugs. The true test of our digital
- 7:51security will be whether the world can deploy AI to patch
- 7:54those vulnerabilities faster than adversarial AI can discover
- 7:57them. Man, it's a little terrifying to
- 7:59think about the geopolitical stakes of an automated
- 8:02cybersecurity arms race. But you know, what I find
- 8:04absolutely fascinating is the everyday side of this
- 8:06technology. Yeah, like the exact same
- 8:09underlying reasoning engines that are capable of securing A
- 8:12multinational bank are now sitting right on our desktops,
- 8:15ready to eliminate the most boring, tedious parts of our
- 8:18day. Oh, absolutely.
- 8:20The contrast is striking. High leverage delegation is no
- 8:23longer restricted to enterprise companies.
- 8:27You know the individual now has access to the exact same logic
- 8:30engine. Let's actually look at a couple
- 8:31of staff use cases from the sources that illustrate this
- 8:34perfectly. First we have Mayor, who is a
- 8:37content manager. Right the Downloads folder
- 8:39story. Yes, his Downloads folder was an
- 8:42absolute disaster. Like 100 gigabytes of random
- 8:45files, images, PDFs and zip files just accumulated over six
- 8:49months. We have all been there, just
- 8:51staring at that mess. Exactly.
- 8:53But instead of spending an entire Sunday organizing it, he
- 8:56just gave an AI assistant called Claude Co work access to the
- 9:00folder and basically said help me organize this and what
- 9:03happened. In minutes the AI scanned the
- 9:05entire 100 gigabytes, arranged everything by file type into
- 9:08neat logical folders and deleted all the duplicates.
- 9:12Hours of tedious work just gone in minutes.
- 9:15It really transforms the computer from a passive storage
- 9:17device into an active assistant. And then there's Shubham, an
- 9:21editor. His brother-in-law needed a
- 9:23Shopify website built for a new business.
- 9:26Now Shobum isn't a web developer.
- 9:28He doesn't know how to code. But he's clawed.
- 9:30Right. Yeah, he used Clawed to act as
- 9:32his own on demand Shopify expert.
- 9:34He just shared screenshots of what he wanted, linked to some
- 9:37design references and typed out the business requirements and
- 9:40the AI completely generated the liquid code.
- 9:44Which for context, Liquid is the specific proprietary templating
- 9:49language that Shopify uses to build its underlying page
- 9:52structures. It is highly specialized.
- 9:54Right, Shubham didn't need to learn a single word of Liquid.
- 9:58The AI wrote the code, troubleshooted some weird theme
- 10:01issues, modified the page layouts, and then told him
- 10:04exactly where to copy and paste the code inside his Shopify
- 10:07dashboard. He just bypassed the community
- 10:10forums, bypassed the technical documentation, and went straight
- 10:13from concept to a launch store. What both of those examples
- 10:17highlight is this massive transition from using AI merely
- 10:20as a search engine to using it as an active autonomous agent.
- 10:24Yeah. And there's actually a brilliant
- 10:26step by step framework in our materials for building your own
- 10:31AI taskmaster to manage your daily workflow.
- 10:34I love this part of the research.
- 10:36Break this down for us, because this is something anyone
- 10:38listening can literally set up on their computer today.
- 10:41It's surprisingly straightforward actually.
- 10:44You start by opening Claude code or a tool like Codex inside a
- 10:48dedicated folder on your computer.
- 10:50Your first instruction is to ask the AI to create a daily skill.
- 10:54OK, a daily skill. Right, you tell it to check your
- 10:56Slack messages, your Gmail inbox, and your daily calendar.
- 10:59Every single warning before you even sit down.
- 11:01So you're basically giving it eyes on all your incoming
- 11:04communication streams so it can see what people are asking of
- 11:06you. Precisely.
- 11:08Then you instructed to prioritize those incoming tasks
- 11:11from high to low importance, and you have it.
- 11:14Output this prioritized list into a specific markdown file.
- 11:17Let's call it mono note dot MD. Got it Mono note dot MD.
- 11:21Yeah, and you instruct the AI to format this file with today's
- 11:24date at the top, group the tasks logically by project and include
- 11:27direct source links back to the original emails or messages.
- 11:30Oh, so you don't have to go hunting for them later?
- 11:33That is brilliant. Exactly, and you add status
- 11:36check boxes so you can visually check things off as you work.
- 11:38I love the check boxes. It takes this abstract AI magic
- 11:42and turns it into a highly tangible, satisfying To Do List
- 11:46totally. And to keep the AI aligned with
- 11:49your specific job, you also have the agent create a second file
- 11:54called Task rules dot MD. This is where you store your
- 11:57personal rules for what constitutes a high priority
- 12:01versus a low priority task for your specific role.
- 12:04OK, that makes sense. But the real beauty of this
- 12:06system happens on day 2. After you run it manually the
- 12:09first time, you ask the agent to automate the process.
- 12:12From then on, every morning it will review what you checked off
- 12:15yesterday, roll over any bump tasks, update the rules based on
- 12:19your feedback, and generate a first perfectly prioritized mono
- 12:22note list for the day. It's a self cleaning To Do List
- 12:25and I actually have to add a pro tip from the sources here that
- 12:28just blew my mind. Let's hear it.
- 12:29Once you have this system running smoothly, you can create
- 12:33a weekly audit skill. You literally have the AI scan
- 12:37your own task list at the end of the week, look for repetitive
- 12:40things you keep doing manually, and have it suggest which of
- 12:43those tasks can be fully automated next.
- 12:45Wow. It's essentially an operating
- 12:48system for your career that continually optimizes itself.
- 12:51It really provides personal operational leverage at a scale
- 12:54we simply haven't. Seen before and you know the
- 12:56only reason building these daily autonomous workflows is becoming
- 12:59so viable for the average person is that the underlying compute
- 13:03tech is getting drastically cheaper and faster.
- 13:06Which brings us perfectly to today's rapid fire news.
- 13:09The speed and cost wars among the major tech companies are
- 13:12heating up in a big way. They really are.
- 13:14Yeah, DeepSeek V4 Pro just permanently slashed their
- 13:17pricing by a massive 75%. We're talking 0.435 dollars per
- 13:24million input tokens and 0.87 dollars per million output
- 13:28tokens. Which is staggeringly far below
- 13:31the closed source rivals. I mean, it's 75% price cut isn't
- 13:35just a discount, it changes the fundamental economics of what
- 13:38developers can actually build. Because it's practically free.
- 13:42Right when the cost of processing logic drops to near
- 13:450, those continuous agent moves we just talked about, like the
- 13:48AI taskmaster constantly checking your e-mail, they
- 13:51become practically free to run all day long and.
- 13:54Google isn't sitting still either, they just dropped Gemini
- 13:573.5 Flash which is 4 times faster than its previous
- 14:01versions at half the price. Wow.
- 14:03Plus, we're seeing entirely new specialized tools launching,
- 14:07like Poultia, which is marketing itself as an AI Co founder that
- 14:10plans, builds and operates digital businesses 24/7.
- 14:13The barrier to entry for building complex software is
- 14:16literally collapsing in real time.
- 14:18The ripple effects of this cheap compute are hitting every
- 14:21sector. Let's just run through
- 14:22everything else happening across the industry right now.
- 14:24Sounds good. Perplexity Just open sourced a
- 14:27tool called Bumblebee. It's a scanner for Mac OS and
- 14:30Linux that checks for risky packages, browser extensions and
- 14:34AI tool configurations during supply chain incidents.
- 14:37It's essentially an open source immune system for developers.
- 14:39Exactly. And on the medical front, NVIDIA
- 14:42released a new foundation model called NV Generate Mr. Brain.
- 14:46It generates highly realistic synthetic 3D brain MRI scans
- 14:51with perfectly mapped annotations.
- 14:54Now, the creation of synthetic data is an absolutely massive
- 14:57breakthrough for medical AI. For years, researchers have
- 15:00faced a severe data bottleneck. Because of privacy laws, right?
- 15:04Yes exactly. You want to train an AI to
- 15:06detect early stage brain tumors but you can't just feed it
- 15:09millions of real patient brain scans because of strict privacy
- 15:12laws like I pay, the data is completely locked down.
- 15:15So the synthetic data fixes that.
- 15:17Right, by generating perfectly accurate synthetic 3D brains,
- 15:21NVIDIA is allowing researchers to circumvent the privacy
- 15:23bottleneck entirely and train life saving models without ever
- 15:27touching a real patient's records.
- 15:28That is just incredible. And finally, at the national
- 15:31level, the White House just approved $9 billion to help US
- 15:35spy agencies acquire advanced AI chips.
- 15:39Which is a huge investment. Yeah.
- 15:41The driving concern there is basically ensuring they don't
- 15:44don't fall behind global adversaries and deploying these
- 15:46frontier models. Which ties right back to that
- 15:49cybersecurity arms race and the zero day vulnerabilities we were
- 15:53just discussing with Anthropic. It really does.
- 15:55OK, I need to pause here for a second and just look at this
- 15:57whole picture. We've got plummeting compute
- 16:01costs, medical research bypassing decades old data
- 16:04bottlenecks, the government pouring $9 billion into
- 16:07specialized chips. Sounds pretty perfect.
- 16:09Right, exactly. It sounds like we are gliding
- 16:11into this flawless, frictionless tech utopia, but anytime you
- 16:15force abstract, cutting edge software into the messy real
- 16:19world, things break. Surely there are massive growing
- 16:22pains when businesses force this tech into the real world.
- 16:26Oh, absolutely. That is a crucial reality check.
- 16:28The data absolutely reflects massive growing pains,
- 16:31especially when you look at how traditional businesses operate.
- 16:33Like, take the consulting world. McKenzie, you know, one of the
- 16:37largest management consulting firms on the planet, is
- 16:40currently rethinking its entire billing model.
- 16:42Oh wow. Yeah, for decades consulting his
- 16:45run on the billable hour. But AI is so efficient at data
- 16:49analysis and report generation that it's destroying the value
- 16:53of time. Because if an AI can analyze a
- 16:55massive corporate data set and draft a 90 page strategic brief
- 16:59in 12 seconds, the client isn't going to pay you for the three
- 17:03weeks it used to take a team of junior analysts to write it.
- 17:05Precisely. Clients know the work takes less
- 17:08time now, so they are demanding fees tied to actual business
- 17:12outcomes rather than just hours spent at a desk.
- 17:15It's a fundamental shift in how knowledge work is valued and
- 17:19monetized. That's a massive structural
- 17:21change for white collar work, but what about on the
- 17:23operational, physical side of things?
- 17:25Well, that's where we see the messy friction you mentioned
- 17:27most clearly. Starbucks, for example, just
- 17:29completely scrapped its AI inventory management system.
- 17:32Wait, they scrapped the entire system?
- 17:33Yes, after trying to make it work for nine months, they cited
- 17:38persistent inventory, miscounts and mislabeled products across
- 17:42their North American stores. Ouch.
- 17:44Yeah, it's a stark reminder that an AI might be able to solve an
- 17:4780 year old math problem in a perfectly controlled digital
- 17:50environment, but accurately tracking physical milk and
- 17:54coffee beans in a chaotic retail store is a completely different
- 17:58challenge. I imagine translating perfectly
- 18:00verified digital logic into the physical world is just an
- 18:03absolute nightmare. An AI can read a supply chain
- 18:06spreadsheet, Florida State, but it can't account for a barista
- 18:10accidentally dropping a bottle of vanilla syrup or a delivery
- 18:13driver leaving a box in the wrong hallway.
- 18:15Exactly, the physical world is chaotic and AI still struggles
- 18:18with that translation. It's a profound dichotomy,
- 18:21really. AI handles digital complexity
- 18:23beautifully, but physical unpredictability breaks it.
- 18:26It really does. But you know, while massive
- 18:28multibillion dollar corporations like Starbucks are pulling their
- 18:31hair out trying to force AI into thousands of physical stores,
- 18:35individual users operating from their laptops at home are
- 18:37finding life changing leverage. Because the individual isn't
- 18:41trying to manage global supply chains, they're just trying to
- 18:43manage their own cognitive load. Exactly, and that is perfectly
- 18:47illustrated by today's community AI workflow.
- 18:51This comes from a listener named Alicia in Fresno, CA.
- 18:54Oh I love this one. Yeah, her situation is
- 18:56incredibly relatable. She was completely overwhelmed
- 18:59trying to compare university programs.
- 19:01She's balancing a full time job, she has a specific income level
- 19:04to work around, and she found herself just drowning in browser
- 19:09tabs from a dozen different university website.
- 19:11Trying to compare tuition costs, figure out what's strictly in
- 19:14person versus online. It's a classic data synthesis
- 19:18problem. You have too many variables
- 19:20scattered across too many unstandardized website formats.
- 19:23Right, so she used Chachi PT to pull all that data together and
- 19:26actually compare the programs and costs side by side in a
- 19:29simple table. But here's where it gets really
- 19:31interesting. The brilliant step she took
- 19:33wasn't just asking for the data to be summarized.
- 19:36She then asked ChatGPT to build custom questions for her to ask
- 19:41the human admissions counselor during her upcoming phone calls.
- 19:44Oh wow, that is a profound shift in how to utilize the
- 19:48technology. She said that ChatGPT helped her
- 19:51come up with highly specific questions about her unique
- 19:54living and working constraints that she hadn't even thought to
- 19:56ask. It's surfaced her blind spots.
- 19:58Exactly. The AI essentially interviewed
- 20:01her life to prep her for the real interview.
- 20:04This is a perfect example of using AI not just as an advanced
- 20:07search engine, but as a genuine thought partner.
- 20:10When you're stressed and overwhelmed by a big life
- 20:13decision, your perspective naturally narrows.
- 20:16You simply don't know what you don't know, right?
- 20:19So by asking the AI to generate questions based on her specific
- 20:23constraints, she essentially used it to expand her own
- 20:26critical thinking. From Solving unsolvable 56 year
- 20:29old math problems to helping someone in Fresno figure out
- 20:33their college plan so they can advance their career, it's just
- 20:37incredible to see the spectrum of how this technology is
- 20:40touching absolutely everything. It really is.
- 20:43And if we pull all these threads together, it leaves us with a
- 20:45rather profound question to consider today.
- 20:47Let's hear it. If an AI system can formally
- 20:50verify abstract mathematical theorems for the cost of a
- 20:53household blender, and it can uncover critical zero day
- 20:56software vulnerabilities better than dedicated human security
- 20:59teams, how long until AI isn't just checking our existing work,
- 21:04but generating entirely new fields of science that humans
- 21:07don't even have the vocabulary to comprehend?
- 21:10Wow, that is a wild thought to leave off on.
- 21:13We are truly watching the definition of logic and
- 21:15discovery expand right in front of us.
- 21:18Well, that is all the time we have for this deep dive into the
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