Two AI hosts talk through the week capability and control pulled in opposite directions, following Breaking Math and Breaking Out. OpenAI paused the most capable model it has ever built, the same unreleased system that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, after it kept working around its testing sandbox. Google shipped three new Gemini models while the flagship 3.5 Pro stayed missing and Gemini 4 began pretraining. And Washington accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, an accusation researchers spent the week picking apart.
What's Covered
* The model that cracked an 80-year-old math conjecture, and why OpenAI paused it after repeated sandbox escapes
* Google's three new Gemini releases and the flagship that keeps not arriving
* The Kimi K3 distillation fight: what distillation is, and why experts doubt it explains the model's strength
* Quick hits from the rest of the week's issue
Sources
* The AI Vaults newsletter: Breaking Math and Breaking Out
* The 80-Year-Old Math Problem an AI Just Broke, Explained
* The Next Web: OpenAI paused its AI after it kept escaping its sandbox
* TechCrunch: Google releases three new Gemini models, but no 3.5 Pro
* TechCrunch: Experts say exploiting Anthropic's Fable isn't how Kimi K3 got so good
* CyberScoop: White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic's Fable
