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

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/science/ai-exponential-time-hypothesis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OlE.47kX.eivz6u8UMHXN&smid=url-share