📉 Wikipedia loses traffic and blames AI

The site’s visits dropped by 8% compared to last year. Wikipedia attributes this decline to people getting answers from chatbots and AI-generated summaries in search engines instead of visiting the encyclopedia itself.

Fewer views also mean fewer donations. To bring back the audience, Wikipedia plans to launch a PR campaign on social media and tighten controls on bots that scrape its articles for chatbots.

💻 Nvidia launches the “smallest AI supercomputer” for $3,999

DGX Spark — a 1.2 kg mini-PC designed for AI developers.

Inside: the new GB10 superchip (20-core Grace CPU on Arm + Blackwell GPU), 128 GB LPDDR5x, and 4 TB NVMe. Runs on DGX OS, a special Ubuntu version with preinstalled AI software.

Nvidia positions Spark as the “smallest AI supercomputer with data-center power”. Target audience — developers who need to run modern AI models locally.

Price — $3,999. In addition to Nvidia, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, and MSI have their own Spark versions.

Later this year, a more powerful DGX Station with GB300 chip will be released.

🧮 OpenAI overstated its math achievements

OpenAI’s VP Kevin Weil posted on X claiming that “GPT-5 solved ten unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on eleven more.” It sounded like a historic scientific breakthrough, and the internet quickly celebrated GPT-5’s supposed genius — but the excitement didn’t last.

The admin of erdosproblems.com later stepped in, clarifying that Weil’s statement distorted the facts. GPT-5 hadn’t solved the problems at all — it had simply found existing research papers online where those problems were already solved. The admin, unaware of the prior solutions, got excited and shared the results on social media. OpenAI then amplified that post, turning it into what looked like a groundbreaking success story.

As expected, the backlash followed. Weil deleted the post after criticism from colleagues. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called the episode “embarrassing,” while Yann LeCun mocked that OpenAI had “fallen for its own hype.”

Still, the real story is more modest — and more meaningful. GPT-5 proved genuinely useful as a research assistant, capable of finding relevant papers and connecting scattered scientific literature.

As mathematician Terence Tao put it:

“AI isn’t solving great problems yet, but it can accelerate mathematics tenfold — not as a genius, but as a flawless librarian.”

🇯🇵 Japan demands OpenAI stop using anime without permission

The Japanese government officially asked OpenAI to cease using Japanese artwork without authorization, stating that manga and anime are “irreplaceable cultural treasures.”

The trigger was the launch of Sora 2.0, where users generated numerous videos featuring characters like Pikachu, Mario, and others originally from Japan.

This adds to OpenAI’s ongoing issues with copyright enforcement, especially as Japanese visual culture remains a popular theme for AI-generated content—think of the hype around Studio Ghibli–style portraits.