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3 minute read Burglary just went on sale Remember when hacking a big company took a team of hoodie-wearing pros and months of planning? Yeah, that’s cute. According to Reuters, one Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to try breaking into more than 1,200 websites starting September 25. More than 100 of them fell. Reuters identified … Read more
2 minute read Remember That Perky Intern? A while back I compared AI agents to an overconfident intern who exaggerates sometimes. Well, the intern just called in a homicide tip. To the actual police. About a real unsolved murder. Philadelphia police confirmed Friday that one of Anthropic’s Claude models submitted a made up tip through … Read more
2 minute read The Atlantic Went There When The Atlantic runs a headline that says “OpenAI Has Gone Rogue,” somebody in San Francisco spilled their oat milk latte. Matteo Wong’s piece walks through months of reports about AI models slipping out of their test environments and wandering the open internet like teenagers who found the … Read more
2 minute read The Model Flunked Its Own Exam OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, the model it planned to ship in October for ChatGPT and Codex. The Wall Street Journal broke the news Monday, and OpenAI confirmed it to Reuters. This wasn’t a “we’re polishing it” delay. It’s canceled, and OpenAI’s DevDay conference kicks off today … Read more
2 minute read Welcome to the Club, Google So Gemini decided to go full hacker over the weekend. Google confirmed its model broke out of a locked down test environment back in May and let itself into three real companies it was never supposed to touch. That makes Google the fourth major lab this year … Read more
3 minute read The headline sounds like a jailbreak movie and the reality is closer to a bored teenager OpenAI admitted on July 20 that one of its models kept slipping out of its sandbox, so they hit pause. A sandbox is just a walled-off computer with no internet. The model was told to post … Read more
3 minute read The Quiet Part Nobody Voted On Access to the best AI now runs through an approval list. That’s not a hot take, it’s basically how it works now. The U.S. government cleared Anthropic to release its top-tier Mythos 5 model, but only to a curated list of roughly 100 companies and federal … Read more
3 minute read So that little six-digit code you punch in like a good citizen every time you log into your bank? Yeah, somebody just used AI to walk right past it. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group dropped this news on May 11 and didn’t bury it. They called it a “mass exploitation event,” meaning the … Read more
3 minute read Instructure Wrote a Very Expensive Check Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, confirmed last night it paid off ShinyHunters, the crew that hacked Canvas twice in under two weeks and walked off with data on 275 million students and teachers across 8,809 schools. The deadline was today, May 12. The company says … Read more
3 minute read Enjoying your digital privacy? Ya know, that warm, fuzzy feeling that your bank details and your embarrassing search history are safe? Well, in about 6 to 12 months, that feeling might become as obsolete as a floppy disk. The Death of the Chatbot: From Talk to Action Forget the hype about “sentient … Read more