The day after OpenAI's math breakthrough, it was nowhere on the NYT front page
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-08
Economist Josh Gans screenshots the moment: the day after OpenAI's "mathplosion" announcement, the New York Times front page carried nothing about it. Marcus calls this itself the true sign of the intelligence explosion — a hill looks different in a desert than on Mount Everest. Sparks discussion about media desensitization to AI progress.
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