Daily digest: Claude proves Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, Apple's biggest launch wave
APPSO · wechat · 2026-09-05
Key stories: Anthropic says Claude completed the first end-to-end machine-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days, led by Columbia professor and Anthropic researcher Tianyi Peng. Claude wrote 13M lines of Lean code, consumed 6B tokens, and produced 30,300 verifiable theorems (29,500 used in the final proof) — over 5x Mathlib, the largest Lean proof ever. The team also formalized Vinogradov's three-primes theorem in 3 days; code is open-sourced.
Also: Apple reportedly preps its biggest hardware wave ever (foldable iPhone over $2000, iPhone 18 Pro, Watch Series 12) starting Sept 9; GPT-6 Astra rolls out fully; Tesla Cybercab rides open in Austin; WeChat's Xiaowei tests agent-to-agent communication; Qwen Office hits 30M users in a month.
Industry & hardware: memory price hikes push global phone prices up 15%; Nscale seeks $3.5B pre-IPO funding with $2B from Nvidia; Adobe names a new CEO; Huawei's He Tingbo publishes a paper on "Tao's Law," claiming Kirin 2026 NPU power drops 66%.
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