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.
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Intro
OpenAI says an internal model closed ten open problems
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/1/ten-advances-in-mathematics/A soundness bug in the Lean 4 kernel
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/381Three open letters, three very different asks
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/open-letters/Claude reached inside three companies during evaluations
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/02/week-in-review-claude-breached-three-companies-during-tests-ad-cs-domain-takeover-poc-released/Water utilities in seven states hit, Iran suspected
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-investigating-iran-cyberattack-minnesota-water-systems/Over one hundred vulnerabilities at an I R S contractor
https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/07/29/over-100-vulnerabilities-found-in-irs-contractor-handling-americans-tax-information/CareCloud notifies 350,000 after health record breach
https://www.securityweek.com/carecloud-data-breach-impacts-over-350000/Thirty three bugs in cJSON, and an argument about who owes what
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/380Judge lets Minnesota's nudify app ban take effect
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/judge-denies-xais-request-to-block-minnesota-ban-on-nudify-apps/Almost nobody gets cited in A I answers
https://website-auditor.io/ai-visibility-indexA one job test for the skills you installed
https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/agent-skill-one-job-testApple posts a record quarter on Tim Cook's last call
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/apple-announces-record-q3-results/Sign-off
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