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May 26, 2026

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Karpathy to lead recursive self-improvement team

Also: OpenAI model disproves central discrete geometry conjecture, solving Erdős problem; DeepMind claims nine solutions‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Tuesday 26 May 2026

Transformative AI
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Karpathy to lead recursive self-improvement team
On 19 May, Andrej Karpathy announced on X that he had joined Anthropic, stating that "the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative" and expressing excitement about returning to research and development.

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