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Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

TechCrunch • Tue, 27 Oct 2026

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery

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