OpenAI hits automated research intern goal, agents solve Navier-Stokes in 88 hours
btibor91 · x · 2026-09-13
OpenAI this week
- Says it reached its automated research intern goal and is progressing toward an automated AI researcher by March 2028.
- Paused RL training on deployment-bound models after the Hugging Face incident; an investigation found Tristan Buckmaster's Codex prompts could not have influenced the system and no user data was accessed.
- Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki's essay An Alien Mind argues no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling responsibly at maximum speed for much longer.
- Published a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, produced in 88 hours by 10,000 coordinating agents running a new internal model more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
- Called for mandatory capability-based national regulation.
Anthropic this week
- Cyber incidents and a development slowdown headline its news.
The week packs automated-researcher timelines, an alignment-pessimist essay, and a Millennium Problem solve into one snapshot of the acceleration vs. slowdown debate.
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