New paper challenges Apple's claim that AI reasoning collapses
Alex Lawsen just published a rebuttal to Apple's viral study, arguing that LRMs didn't fail at reasoning—the tests were just flawed. Models hit token generation ceilings rather than brain freezes, and even refused mathematically impossible river-crossing puzzles. When asked to write code instead of typing out moves, Claude and o3 solved 15-disk Hanoi puzzles easily.