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title: "Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof \"shocking news\"; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption (Cade Metz/New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/exponential-time-hypothesis-co-proposer-russell-impagliazzo-calls-4acffcf9
published: 2026-11-07T17:15:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news"; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-07 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/exponential-time-hypothesis-co-proposer-russell-impagliazzo-calls-4acffcf9

Cade Metz / New York Times : Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news"; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.

In this story: [OpenAI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/openai), [New York Times](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/new-york-times)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261107/p12#a261107p12)

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