Russia’s missile count, the cost of Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads and OpenAI’s 372 math results may show that the open questions lie in the breakdown, not the total

Ukraine says Russia fired about 70 missiles and more than 100 drones overnight in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called one of the biggest strikes since 2022, but our latest report said it was still unknown how much of the country’s power supply was knocked out. A $20 million government contract paid for TV ads featuring President Trump, and nearly $11.5 million worth had aired as of midday Tuesday; the White House says his pledge to have his super PAC pay does not mean paying back the millions already spent. OpenAI posted 372 math results with an average compute figure, but not the prompts or per-problem compute that an advisory group of mathematicians has recommended publishing. Read together, they may show that the open questions often lie in the breakdown behind a headline number.

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