Ep. 44 — An AI staffs its own research team and moves a Riemann bound, Gemini hits a billion users, and a two-month-old startup raises $1.1B

An AI staffs its own research team and moves a Riemann bound, Gemini hits a billion users, and a two-month-old startup raises $1.1B 00:48 — An unreleased Anthropic model raised a long-standing lower bound tied to the Riemann hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%, coordinating 60 subagents over roughly 36 hours and 31 million output tokens 02:17 — Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1 billion monthly active users, the fastest any Google product has ever reached that mark — while Gemini 3.5 Pro has slipped past its promised June window 03:47 — General Catalyst and AMP PBC lead a $1.1 billion round into River AI, a two-month-old startup founded by Igor Babuschkin, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek participating 05:17 — SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot, always-on AI agents pitched as 'AI teammates' with their own cloud computer that sign into your apps 05:42 — Blacksmith's valuation jumps roughly 10x to $550 million on a $45 million Series B, as AI-written code floods CI pipelines 06:06 — Apple appears to be building 'Apple Reference Image,' an iOS feature that embeds provenance metadata at the moment of capture so you can prove a photo came from an iPhone camera 06:30 — Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and former COO, is leaving after eight years Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.