formal verification

Jacob Tsimerman has announced that he will take an AI-safety role at OpenAI, but the timing matters: as of August 9, the University of Toronto mathematician had not publicly confirmed that he had started work there. Tsimerman told the San Francisco Chronicle that his start date would be late...

OpenAI says an internal version of its unreleased Astra model has produced ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including an explicit non-sofic group, a disproof of Connes’s rigidity conjecture, new bounds in sphere packing and coding theory, and results touching quantum...

Microsoft has released machine-checked proofs for Rust implementations of SHA-3 and ML-KEM in SymCrypt, its production cryptographic library used across Windows and Azure Linux. Announced by Microsoft Research on July 13, the work combines Rust, the Lean proof assistant, the Aeneas verification...

AxiomProver’s formally verified breakthrough and a week of tectonic shifts across AI — from Apple opening CarPlay to rival chatbots to venture capital pouring billions into infrastructure — together mark a new phase in the technology’s maturation. What looked like incremental advances just three...

For decades, cryptographic libraries have served as the silent sentinels of digital security, embedded deep within operating systems, servers, cloud platforms, gaming consoles, and the web. Yet, the very foundation on which these libraries rest—principally C and C++ code—has become a key source...

Building the next generation of artificial intelligence is as much about reimagining how systems are constructed and interact as it is about scaling up models. At the heart of today’s leading AI research from Microsoft is a profound shift in the design, verification, and deployment of complex...