OpenAI Claims Navier-Stokes Breakthrough as Meta Launches Muse Personal Agent
Ben's Bites · rss · 2026-09-10
Key items from this week's Ben's Bites digest:
- ChatGPT Images 2.5: OpenAI's new image model excels at editing single elements while preserving the rest, cuts generation time by up to 50%, and adds a Sketch feature that turns doodles into images.
- Meta Muse: Zuckerberg's entry into personal agents (vs. Grok Bot et al.) books travel, handles email, and works on "any task" on a computer, with a security-first pitch and FB/Instagram integration; US adults only at launch.
- OpenAI claims it solved Navier-Stokes, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems — with dramatic process details: they started after hearing rumors Anthropic had solved a Millennium Problem too, plus authorship disputes.
- Anthropic's Jacob Coxon resigned on Twitter citing safety concerns, likely the most-viewed AI safety comms ever, though conspiracy questions linger; another safety figure joins OpenAI's board, and Anthropic published an alignment report on Claude's escapades.
- Artificial, the movie about Sam Altman's firing and rehiring starring Andrew Garfield, hits theaters this Christmas.
- Also: OpenAI's essay on the AI policy window, a 35B model running on iPhone, Codex Unity plugin, and Pliny leaking GPT-6 Astra's system prompt.
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