We need to shut down frontier research for at least a year. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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This is so bleak. We're marching towards a horrific future we were warned about endlessly. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
These models being used, and the massive token spend they have, are not really what the average person has access to. Claude found major weaknesses in post quantum cryptography and aes-128 utilizing 1 billion tokens with mythos. www.anthropic.com/research/dis...
I think this is the right move for at least the next year or so. Obviously, this legislation is DOA but we absolutely need a pause on AI development to allow safety research and safeguards to catch up. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A lot of people on here are consistently downplaying the risks here or ignoring it. I think that's a big mistake. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- Researchers say OpenAI agents made more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki, a German programming wiki, from May 11 to July 2, 2026.
- Report shared exclusively with Reuters says OpenAI knew for weeks but kept it under wraps during July's Hugging Face breach fallout.
- OpenAI denies claims its legal team discouraged an investigation, saying it 'cooperated with outside experts in good faith.'
There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
- Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon, 27, resigned and told the WSJ neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly on self-improving AI.
- Coxon warned things could be 'out of control' by the end of next year and said lab colleagues now speak of 'crunchtime' and 'endgame.'
- He spent three years on pretraining research across the two labs and now calls the competitive race 'gambling with our lives.'
Openai has claimed to have solved a millennium prize problem by solving the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem. Though it's clouded in controversy as another mathematician claims they poached their work. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...
The military wanted a version of OpenAI's models that would not refuse directives from military officials, a metric called the "minimal refusal rates." This kind of stuff is extremely dangerous. theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p... archive.ph/iKdbn
More of the ice beneath the waves is being exposed. More rogue agents were discovered trawling for exposed API keys and taking over insecure pages. fortune.com/2026/09/09/o...
The military wanted a version of OpenAI's models that would not refuse directives from military officials, a metric called the "minimal refusal rates." This kind of stuff is extremely dangerous. theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p... archive.ph/iKdbn
Recent commentary
Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.
The Trump administration has rolled out AI powered surveillance cameras with motion tracking, facial recognition, spotlights, and horn speakers. This story really encapsulates everything wrong about this administration. Now they're turning the reflecting pool into a surveillance state nightmare.
Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.
I get the hate for AI but I was able to use Claude to build tools to get access to hundreds of court records via courtlistener API, hundreds of 990s via Propublicas charity navigator, and thousands of political campaign spending records via FEC and Google to measure anti-trans political spending.
The US government just issued an export restriction on Claude Fable/Mythos preventing any foreign national from accessing the model even in the US and Anthropic employees. As a result, all access is cutoff for the foreseeable future.
I think every major company is looking at open weight AI models and realizing they can just bring them in house with an internal engineering team and cut out the frontier model companies to save money. They have more control and privacy. I really don't see frontier labs surviving this.
This is a pretty cool use of AI. They had it scan reddit comments to analyze adverse effects of GLP1s that weren't analyzed during trials. They noticed menstrual issues were prominent. Then they dug through the FDA adverse event reporting database and were able to verify and publish a paper on it.
As someone who really wants AI companies to be limited in the damage they're doing to the world, it's incredibly frustrating when the most vocal contingent of AI skeptics keep repeating the idea that AI doesn't work at all. Maybe that was the case 3 years ago but not any longer.
Really trying not to feel like a doomer but I really worry we're less than a year from a major catastrophic event involving AI. The capabilities are scaling faster than we can effectively monitor and the frontier labs are engaging in extremely reckless behavior.
This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of our product and it committed multiple felonies" marketing?
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