Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 just discovered that a widely accepted answer in particle physics was wrong, proposed the correct one, and autonomously wrote the formal proof in 12 hours.
The "can AI actually think?" debate from skeptics isn't going away, but the real conversation is shifting from if AI can contribute to science to how fast it rewrites what we thought we already knew. | | In today's AI rundown: | GPT-5.2 makes theoretical physics discovery The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases Launch an outbound calling agent in 15 minutes ByteDance's frontier push with Seed 2.0 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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| | | | OPENAI | |  | Image source: Lovart / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: OpenAI just published a new research preprint where GPT-5.2 independently discovered a mathematical formula and formally proved it was correct, marking what the company calls AI's first original contribution to theoretical physics. | The details: | The paper tackles a problem in particle physics that was assumed solved, with 5.2 finding the existing answer was wrong and proposing a correct one. A specialized research version of 5.2 autonomously wrote the math proof in 12 hours, verified by physicists from Harvard, Cambridge, and Princeton. OAI's Kevin Weil is credited as a co-author, with Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger saying the AI "chose a path no human would have tried."
| Why it matters: There will still be debate from skeptics over whether AI is truly capable of 'new' ideas, but the results are getting harder to argue with. AI being pointed at and challenging long-held beliefs in humanity's most important scientific fields is starting to feel less like sci-fi and more like the very near future. |
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| | THE RUNDOWN ROUNDTABLE | |  | Image Source: Lovart / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature where we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and daily lives. | Rishi, Growth: I connected Claude Code to Apify's API to scrape high-performing content from IG/TikTok for ad creative inspiration, and to ElevenLabs' API to automatically transcribe videos — so I can analyze not just visuals, but the exact hooks, pacing, and language top creators are using. From there, I developed a scriptwriting system that takes rough thoughts on a hook and angle and turns them into ad scripts, drawing inspiration from winners and applying proven copywriting principles. | After generating, it also grades itself against a 12-point rubric. If it doesn't score at least 90%, it rewrites until it does. I then feed it back in and say, "This is the final version." It analyzes the changes I made and updates its understanding of my style. | Nate, University Educator: I continue to find that Claude Artifacts (with its front-end design) is delightfully useful — and use it several times a day to learn something new, or catch up on a news story, and turn anything into a custom webpage right inside chat.
Attach surveys, a long article, a spreadsheet, etc., and tell Claude to turn it into an interactive page displaying key insights. The design is impressive, and it takes just minutes. Next time, try this to quickly share findings with your team. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: In this guide, you will build an AI agent that makes real sales calls on your behalf. You'll learn to create the agent, get a $1 phone number, and upload a list of contacts for it to call — with the whole setup taking about 15 minutes. | Step-by-step: | Create a new AI agent in Eleven Labs. Choose a voice and add system instructions. Include details about your business, offer, and the goal of the call Sign up on Twilio (free + $15 in credits) and buy a phone number for $1.20. Copy the number, Account SID, and Auth Token from the dashboard Connect Twilio to Eleven Labs. Go to Phone Numbers in ElevenLabs, click Create New, and paste in your number, SID, and Auth Token Click Outbound in ElevenLabs, create a "batch" with Telephony as the channel, and download a CSV template. Add in leads' numbers, then upload the CSV back. You can now start calling with the agent, test it, or schedule calls for later.
| Pro tip: Toggle on "Transfer to Number" in your agent's Tools to have it patch hot leads through to your phone. |
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| | PRESENTED BY CONCIERGE | | | The Rundown: Today's buyers use AI every day to answer their questions, and have no patience for a scavenger hunt on your website. Concierge is a custom Perplexity-style answer engine, trained on your company's brand & content, that delivers accurate, personalized responses to any questions your website visitors have. | Modern B2B brands use Concierge to: | Handle any buyer question (no matter how technical) with advanced RAG on your content, media, and documentation. Control and visibility over every conversation, with guardrails and sentiment analysis. Build trust with website visitors before they are willing to commit to a demo.
| Use Concierge to turn every question into an opportunity. |
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| | BYTEDANCE | |  | Image source: ByteDance |
| The Rundown: ByteDance released Seed 2.0, a new family of AI models that match or beat GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro across dozens of benchmarks at nearly 1/10 of the price — capping a week that also saw its Seedance 2.0 model spark a Hollywood firestorm. | The details: | Seed 2.0 Pro surpasses GPT-5.2 ($1.75/M) and Gemini 3 Pro ($5/M) across a series of math, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at just $0.47/M input tokens. ByteDance says the model is built for real-world agentic tasks, with demos showing it autonomously completing 96-step CAD modeling workflows. The launch comes on the heels of the viral Seedance 2.0 video model, which is facing pushback from Hollywood over copyrighted characters and voices. Seed 2.0 is live now on ByteDance's Doubao app in "Expert Mode" and via API, though consumer availability outside China is still limited.
| Why it matters: Move over, DeepSeek… ByteDance is the one rattling the Western AI landscape now. With Seed 2.0 now surpassing the Nov-Dec releases from top labs at bargain prices, the pressure on Western labs is only going one direction — and the Seedance IP drama shows China's powerhouse isn't slowing down to ask permission. |
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| | | | | | | OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI, with Sam Altman posting that he will help "drive the next generation of personal agents". | The Pentagon is considering cutting off Anthropic's $200M defense deal over the refusal to let the military use Claude for "all lawful purposes." | Anthropic's Claude was reportedly used via a Pentagon-linked Palantir deployment to support the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. | Spotify CEO Gustav Soderstrom revealed that the company's top devs haven't written a single line of code this year, saying they are "all in" on the transition to AI. | Alpha School shared new test results showing its 2-hour, AI-first academic model has students scoring in the 99th percentile across virtually every grade and subject. | Simile raised $100M to build AI simulations of human behavior, with agents modeled on real people to help companies predict customer decisions. |
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| | | | | Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier. | Today's workflow comes from reader Peter S. in Hollis, NH: | "We recently had a water pipe break in our basement, causing damage to the items we store there. The insurance company required us to itemize, take pictures, and provide an estimated replacement cost for each damaged item. | Instead of searching websites, I uploaded the photos in Copilot with descriptions to obtain a good estimate and several links to where we can buy the items. What would have been days to complete the inventory list turned into a couple of hours." | How do you use AI? Tell us here. |
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| | | | That's it for today!Before you go we'd love to know what you thought of today's newsletter to help us improve The Rundown experience for you. | | See you soon, | Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown | |
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