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OpenAI's math proofs, Lean 4's soundness, competing open letters - August 2, 2026

OpenAI says an internal model closed ten decade-old math problems and formalized the proofs in Lean 4, the same week a soundness bug let the Lean 4 kernel accept a proof that zero equals one. Plus water utility intrusions across seven states, over one hundred vulnerabilities at an I R S contractor, and Apple's record quarter.

Chapters

  1. Intro

  2. OpenAI says an internal model closed ten open problems

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/1/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
  3. A soundness bug in the Lean 4 kernel

    https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/381
  4. Three open letters, three very different asks

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/open-letters/
  5. CareCloud notifies 350,000 after health record breach

    https://www.securityweek.com/carecloud-data-breach-impacts-over-350000/
  6. Thirty three bugs in cJSON, and an argument about who owes what

    https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/380
  7. Almost nobody gets cited in A I answers

    https://website-auditor.io/ai-visibility-index
  8. A one job test for the skills you installed

    https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/agent-skill-one-job-test
  9. Apple posts a record quarter on Tim Cook's last call

    https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/apple-announces-record-q3-results/
  10. Sign-off

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