[AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] AI Solves 56-Year-Old Math, Sanctions Backfire, and the Workforce Lie (May 25 2026)

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Summary: In today’s briefing, we analyze "The Geopolitical Backfire and The Death of the Turing Test." We deconstruct the monumental milestone of Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solving nine open Erdős math problems, marking a shift to original, machine-speed discovery. We explore the failure of US hardware blockades as Chinese lab DeepSeek slashes prices by 75% using homegrown Huawei chips. We dive into the severe corporate morale crisis, with new data showing 63% of workers are actively lying about their AI skills due to automation anxiety. We also cover Anthropic's Claude Mythos finding 10,000+ critical bugs, Pope Leo XIV's 42,000-word AI encyclical, and Waymo robotaxis getting defeated by puddles.

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Important Topics:

• Google AI Cracks Unsolved Math: Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus generates machine-verified proofs for nine open Erdős problems, including two unsolved for 56 years.
• The Geopolitical Blockade Backfires: Chinese lab DeepSeek slashes V4-Pro prices by 75% ($0.435 per million tokens) operating on Huawei’s Ascend supernodes, severely undercutting US frontier models.
• The Workforce AI Lie: A GCheck study finds 63% of workers (and 80% of Gen Z) exaggerate their AI skills out of job insecurity, creating a "double distortion" where they fake proficiency while actively limiting AI use.
• Claude Mythos Finds 10K+ Bugs: Anthropic’s Project Glasswing reveals that the unreleased Mythos Preview model helped partners find over 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in just one month.
• Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical: The Pope releases "Magnifica Humanitas," a 42,300-word document calling to "disarm AI" and warning that the technology weakens personal judgment and genuine human connection.
• Waymo Robotaxis Halted by Water: Waymo pauses service in four major US cities after its robotaxis struggle and freeze when attempting to cross flooded intersections.
• China Assigns Digital IDs to Robots: China rolls out a national program assigning a unique, 17-digit digital identity code to every humanoid robot manufactured in the country.
• Google CEO Responds to Boos: Sundar Pichai addresses the wave of graduates booing AI a