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How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science

A longstanding computer science hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. OpenAI reportedly disproved it, raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies.

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  1. 2026-11-06 10:02 · New York Times AI
    How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science
  2. 2026-11-06 10:02 · New York Times Technology
    How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science

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