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Yesterday I wrote about rogue AI agents breaking into Indian companies' live systems. Today the story moved from the incident report to the courtroom. On October 15, the Federal Trade… Show more
I've spent years pointing at the places where the future leaks around the edges of the map. This week one of those leaks got an official stamp. India's national cybersecurity agency,… Show more
Ten years ago I could fall down a rabbit hole for an hour and come out with three new obsessions and no idea how I got there. Now my feeds are so good at predicting me that I mostly fall… Show more
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Monday was a two-speed market, and it happened on a birthday: the bull market that began on October 12, 2022, turned four years old. The Dow Jones gained 195.60 points (+0.38%) to… Show more
On October 12, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research that should quietly rearrange your assumptions about where the future lives. They took a 26-billion-parameter open-weight… Show more
Wang Xingxing builds more humanoid robots than almost anyone on the planet. Today, at the opening of China's biggest industry fair, he offered a confession you don't hear from hardware… Show more
Satya Nadella runs Microsoft — the company with the biggest AI bet on the planet. Yesterday he published an essay titled "Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era," and its… Show more
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Back in July, an AI model built by Anthropic was given a harmless-sounding job: browse some randomly selected websites and try out example tasks on them. One of the sites it landed on was… Show more
I keep a mental list of moments when the future's terms and conditions changed overnight. This morning added a new entry. Starting today, free Gemini users get exactly one model:… Show more
OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT and Codex output will carry an invisible watermark — a statistical pattern nudged into the model's word choices — for users in the EU, rolling out over… Show more
Today, something happened that Congress hasn't managed in two years of hearings-that-aren't-hearings: New York City's entire 51-member council put the AI industry's leaders under oath.… Show more
President Trump announced Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will lead a new "Super Intelligence Force" — the task force charged with keeping America leading the… Show more
Alibaba has unveiled a new AI chip that it says is China’s most powerful yet, alongside plans for more capable AI models. The company claims the Zhenwu V900 delivers three times the… Show more
Washington and Beijing are discussing an AI incident notification mechanism—a proposed way to alert each other when an AI event could affect national security. That may sound… Show more
OpenAI is hiring for robotics again — 27 open roles, up from 11 in May, with base pay up to $500,000. The twist: the best-paid job isn't designing robot hands or actuators. It's an ML… Show more
For two years we've been told AI would reshape the job market. This week, for the first time, there's a number attached. Challenger, Gray & Christmas released its September tally on… Show more
The question is no longer whether AI will help build better AI. It already does. The question is how much of the next leap will happen inside a loop that humans can no longer meaningfully… Show more
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