AI Just Beat Human Researchers for $11. Your R&D Budget Is Sweating.
A new agent system claims to have cracked a decades-old mathematics problem — 26-circle packing — for less than the cost of a lunch. If the economics hold, “hire a researcher” becomes a rounding error on your API invoice. But hold your Series B pitch deck. The gap between “beat a benchmark” and “replace your lab” is wide, dark, and full of caveats.