In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, Apple’s recent research may have unintentionally revealed the truth many of us have long suspected: AI is artificial, but it is not intelligence.
In a pre-WWDC 2025 research paper, Apple exposed a fundamental flaw at the core of today’s most celebrated systems—OpenAI’s o1 and o3, DeepSeek R1, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, Google’s Gemini Flash Thinking. These “large reasoning models” (LRMs) demonstrate stunning collapse when tasked with logic puzzles that increase in complexity. As Mashable reported, these so-called “thinking” models fall apart entirely. . .

