Jacob Tsimerman, a 2026 Fields Medal winner, announced he will leave pure mathematics to join OpenAI, working on AI alignment. Citing rapid AI progress, he believes AI will surpass human mathematicians within two years, threatening the profession's future.

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases introduces agentic retrieval, a new mode that decomposes multi-part, comparative, and exploratory questions into sub-queries, retrieves iteratively, and can generate a grounded response in one API call. It shows up to 37% absolute recall improvement on multi-hop benchmarks.

Beijing has issued a set of measures to promote the development of AI agents, focusing on nine key areas including foundational models, agent frameworks, native applications, intelligent terminals, OPC entrepreneurship, Token economy, safety governance, factor guarantees, and open-source ecosystem. The policy aims to position Beijing as a global AI innovation hub.