Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

A METR analysis finds AI has accelerated cybersecurity research most, with vulnerability reporting rates rising sharply in 2026 across projects including Microsoft, cURL, and OpenSSL. Mathematics shows minor acceleration, including solutions to the Jacobian conjecture from Smale's list and problems from Green's list. METR found no measurable acceleration in AI research optimization itself, with LLM-attributable contributions in only a couple of seven problem areas like nanoGPT and CIFAR-10.