AI just cracked an 80-year-old math problem nobody could solve — plus everything from Google I/O 26

AI just cracked an 80-year-old math problem nobody could solve — plus everything from Google I/O 26

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

May 21, 2026 · 1h 49m

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This episode covers significant AI news including Google's I/O conference highlights and a breakthrough in solving an 80-year-old math problem.

Hey, Alex here, just got back from the sunny Shoreline Theater in Mountain view, so let me catch you up! This week was definitely Google heavy, we are covering Google’s IO conference for the third year in a row, and today we have a special guest, Logan Kilpatrick, is joining to discuss the announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Omni model, and the new Managed Agents offerings. Plus, this week, for the first time, OpenAI announced that AI solved a Math problem that humans couldn’t solve for 80 years, Cursor is showing off Composer 2.5 which is partly trained on XAI data, Karpathy joins Anthropic and much more! Let’s dive in! P.S - We’ve announced our upcoming hackathon, Weavehacks-4, June 6-7, I’ll be there, we’re expecting the seats to run out very soon so register now ThursdAI - We’d love to have your subscription, and if you’re already subscribed, please hit that bell on YT to never miss an episode! Google I/O 2026 - Google goes agentic everywhere I went to cover Google I/O for the third year in a row, shoutout to the DeepMind team for inviting ThursdAI again, and folks, this one felt different. Last year, Google I/O was still very model-centric. This year, the story was not “here…

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