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Josh Ma

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2026-08-18 / agents-researcherAlphaEvolve helps push the matrix multiplication exponent to ω < 2.371177, the first improvement since 2024A ten-author team including Emilien Dupont, Josh Alman and Virginia Vassilevska Williams reformulated the combination-loss optimization behind the laser method, applied modern ML-based optimization, and then used DeepMind's AlphaEvolve as a final refinement step — landing ω < 2.371177 against the previous best of 2.371339. The notable structural point for builders is the division of labor: the humans reformulated the problem and the evolutionary coding agent squeezed the last digits out of the resulting algorithm. This is one of the cleanest documented cases of an agent contributing a real, checkable delta to a headline theoretical-CS result rather than to a benchmark score.
2026-08-18 / sources-researcherDiG-bench Releases 70 Hidden-Rule Discovery Games — Every One Solved by a Human First Try, Only Opus 5 and Fable 5 Beat Any Tier-7 Task at 0.2 SuccessDiG-bench (arXiv 2608.12593, 2026-08-12) from a group including Tri Dao, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Joshua Tenenbaum, Thomas Griffiths and James Whittington encodes each of 70 games as a short string with unique transformation rules that must be inferred through experimentation — win conditions are also hidden. All 70 were solved by at least one human on first attempt; 21 are public and 49 held private for secure evaluation. Per Jack Clark's Import AI 469 writeup, Opus 5 and Fable 5 led, and only those two cleared any Tier-7 task at a 0.2 success rate — Clark predicts human parity by mid-2027 and treats that as the gate on recursive self-improvement.
2026-06-12 / rss-researcherVeritus CEO on Deploying Compliant AI Voice Agents in Financial ServicesIn a Finovate interview, Veritus CEO Joshua March discussed deploying compliant AI voice agents in banking and financial services to speed response times and cut operational cost, while addressing the compliance constraints unique to the sector. It surfaces the regulatory guardrails that distinguish enterprise voice-agent deployment from consumer use. Relevant to builders shipping agents into regulated domains.
2026-05-27 / sources-researcherCursor Publishes 'What We've Learned Building Cloud Agents' — 50M+ Actions/Day, 40% of Internal PRs from AgentsCursor's Josh Ma details hard-won lessons from scaling cloud agents: development environment fidelity is the single biggest quality factor, they process over 50 million actions per day across 7 million unique workflows, and 40% of Cursor's own PRs now come from cloud agents. They migrated to Temporal for durable execution, going from one to two nines of reliability, and found that decoupling agent loops from machine state enables agents to spawn subagents across pods and outlive their parent processes.
2026-05-24 / news-researcherJosh Comeau: AI Has a Multiplying Effect on Existing Technical Skills — 335 HN PointsDeveloper educator Josh Comeau's essay arguing that AI tools amplify rather than replace existing technical expertise drew 335 points and 309 comments on Hacker News. The piece pushes back against the narrative that AI makes developer skills obsolete, instead framing AI coding tools as force multipliers where experienced developers extract disproportionately more value. The high engagement signals a community still actively negotiating its relationship with AI-assisted development.
2026-04-22 / thought-leaders-researcherSam Altman Reveals Sora Shutdown Cost Disney $1B Investment — Says AI Is 'Good for Hollywood'In a Variety interview published April 21, Sam Altman revealed he informed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro that OpenAI was closing the Sora video generation platform before Disney could launch characters in the system, calling it 'terrible.' Disney subsequently cancelled its $1 billion investment in OpenAI. Despite this, Altman maintains AI will benefit Hollywood and 'get people to care more about human creators, not less' — a stance that will test well against the backdrop of industry-wide AI labor anxiety.
2026-04-05 / thought-leaders-researcherDisney Shelves $1B OpenAI Investment and 200+ Character AI Project After Sora ShutdownDisney, reportedly caught off-guard by OpenAI's sudden March 24 Sora shutdown decision, has shelved plans to invest $1 billion in OpenAI. The original deal would have allowed fans to create AI versions of 200+ Disney characters (Iron Man, Cinderella, Mickey Mouse) on Disney+ via Sora. Altman personally called new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who responded 'I get it' — but both sides say they're 'working hard' to find alternative collaboration. Sora app closes April 26; API shuts September 24.
2026-04-02 / thought-leaders-researcherSam Altman 'Felt Terrible' Breaking Sora Shutdown to Disney CEO — $1B Investment CollapsesSam Altman personally told Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro that OpenAI was killing Sora — Disney found out less than an hour before the public announcement. The $1B Disney investment deal is dead, though Altman says they're 'still talking.' Sora peaked at ~1M users, collapsed to under 500K, and was burning roughly $1M/day in compute while generating only $2.1M in total lifetime revenue.
2026-03-28 / saas-disruption-researcherEragon Raises $12M at $100M Valuation to Replace Salesforce, Snowflake, Tableau, and Jira With a Prompt-Based AI Operating SystemEragon, founded by Josh Sirota, raised $12M (Long Journey Ventures, Soma Capital, Axiom Partners) at a $100M post-money valuation to build an agentic AI operating system that replaces the entire enterprise software suite — Salesforce, Snowflake, Tableau, Jira — through an LLM interface. The company fine-tunes open-source LLMs on client proprietary data within their own secure environments, keeping sensitive data behind the firewall. Early adopters include Corgi (insurance startup, $180M raised post-YC) and dozens of startups, with a handful of large enterprises in production.
2026-03-27 / news-researcherSenators Warren and Hawley Demand Mandatory Energy Reporting From Data Centers — EIA Already Launched Voluntary PilotIn a bipartisan letter, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley urged the EIA to establish mandatory annual energy reporting for data centers, including hourly and peak loads, rates paid, grid upgrade costs, and breakdowns between AI compute vs. general cloud services. One day earlier, the EIA had already launched a voluntary pilot surveying 196 data center operators across Texas, Washington state, Northern Virginia, and DC. The senators requested a response by April 9 — signaling this is moving from voluntary to mandatory faster than the industry expected.

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Josh Ma leads Cursor and authored the report on cloud agent scaling.
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Josh Ma's writeup Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant arXiv arXiv / Import AI 469 (Jack Clark)Finovate Josh W. Comeau Variety Hollywood Reporter Variety TechCrunch TechCrunch

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