A 58-year-old mathematical puzzle was solved by GPT-5.4 Pro in a single prompt. We explore what this means for the nature of creativity itself, from Edison's lightbulb to Shakespeare's plays, and ask whether synthesis is fundamentally any different when done by a machine.

Our first blog post. We are husband and wife builders of Negative Star Innovators. Here we present our thinking, discuss our achievements and failures, and build trust with our readers as we release products under the Negative Star Innovators brand.

We have released Paste Redactor, a tool that redacts Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from your clipboard. It processes redactions 100% locally which means your clipboard contents never leaves your device. We discuss who would use it, why the feeling of indifference is dangerous, and where we are now on our privacy journey.