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Reaction converging Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher Building & implementation · 4 attributable reactions +2 more reaction maps further down
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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 1d ago
⚡ 14 h early

Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Shannon Mattern Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 +6
3 experts discussed this · 38 posts
Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
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Primary source reuters.com ↗
New Models & releases Analysis 17h ago
⚡ 1 h early
Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI research Development 15d ago
⚡ 7 h early
Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Fiesler Jason Koebler Rafael Pinto Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo Stephen Turner Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

“this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...”

4 experts discussed this · 34 posts
Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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Primary source insidehighered.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 11d ago
⚡ 19 h early
Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Taylor Lorenz Hypervisible Luke Stark sorelle Dare Obasanjo Charles Logan Meredith Rose +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

4 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Primary source nysfocus.com ↗
Established AI research Resource 12d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Primary source intheweights.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 7d ago
⚡ 36 h early

openai.com

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Dare Obasanjo Shriram Krishnamurthi

“check it out! you can pay $230 to operate codex like a loud bumbling idiot!!! it’s too big and heavy to carry with you, so it has to sit on your desk, and it has too few buttons to be a real keyboard openai.com/supply/co-la...”

“OpenAI has launched it's first hardware device. A $230 mini-keyboard that integrates with Codex. It has light-up indicators showing agent status and customizable shortcuts for frequent Codex actions. It also has a dial to adjust the computing power an agent…”

5 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Tim Kellogg: check it out! you can pay $230 to operate codex like a loud bumbling idiot!!! it’s too big and heavy to carry with you, so it has to sit on your desk, and it has too few buttons to be a real keyboa…
Chris: That is hysterical.
coty.bsky.social: Can’t wait to use the skill stick and thinking dial.
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Models & releases Development 14d ago
⚡ 5 h early
Anthropic ad creeps out users

Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out | TechCrunch

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Dare Obasanjo

“Just straight up running Doomer commercials now.”

“It seems running an ad showing a homeless person sleeping on the street and rows upon rows of tombstones in a cemetery then asking what do we do “when AI takes almost all the jobs?” and “can AI be trusted?” isn’t going over well. Another great example of An…”

4 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Hypervisible : Just straight up running Doomer commercials now.
Hypervisible : 💀
Hypervisible : I need @doriantaylor.com and @fasterandworse.com to see this.
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Primary source techcrunch.com ↗
Established Models & releases Development 12d ago

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest Dare Obasanjo Dr. Elinor Carmi launchit.ai
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Ap…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Apple suing OpenAI for poaching employees AND trade secrets. What do you think: does this happen all the time but it’s rarely caught, or is it kind of rare, and the people doing it just aren’t that… sophisticated?”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Dare Obasanjo: Apple is suing OpenAI for stealing trade secrets. Apple alleges that senior OpenAI executives, who are ex-Apple, ask job candidates to bring in Apple hardware components to their interviews and coa…
Dare Obasanjo: "behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership...As a natural result, OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations,…
Gus: Hum, this is quite serious! It's incredible how oai in stock a skirt time has so many legal issues Maybe their next model won't be strong in coding but in court defence
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Primary source techcrunch.com ↗
Established Models & releases Development 6d ago
OpenAI GPT-5.6 file deletion bug

OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an ‘honest mistake’

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“This is essentially a variant of the story below with worse outcomes that’s being masterfully spun via marketing.”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Dare Obasanjo: People are getting tricked by OpenAI’s marketing hype. This is essentially the standard asking an LLM to do a thing and it doesn’t follow instructions that we see daily. “Find exploits to use to ha…
Dare Obasanjo: This is essentially a variant of the story below with worse outcomes that’s being masterfully spun via marketing.
Jake Laperruque: People are getting tricked by OpenAI’s marketing hype. This is essentially the standard asking an LLM to do a thing and it doesn’t follow instructions that we see daily. “Find exploits to use to ha…
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Primary source infoworld.com ↗
Established Models & releases Development 18d ago
OpenAI discontinues ChatGPT Atlas browser

OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser - 9to5Mac

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“OpenAI is winding down its browser, Atlas. Following the wind down of Sora, both shutdowns are good reminders that even if AI makes execution “free”, strategy still matters.”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Dare Obasanjo: OpenAI is winding down its browser, Atlas. Following the wind down of Sora, both shutdowns are good reminders that even if AI makes execution “free”, strategy still matters.
jeremy.lewi.us: Codex's in browser functionality is a real game changer for me. I never used Atlas but I live in Codex.
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Primary source 9to5mac.com ↗
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2 experts · 7 posts · 3d ago
Dare Obasanjo Ciara Rowles
Dare Obasanjo: It’s unclear to me what the moat will be for AI model companies long term. Yesterday I had Opus 4.8 & Muse Spark 1.1 check each other’s work and Claude said the Muse Spark version was superior to i…
Dare Obasanjo: I work at Meta so feel free to be skeptical that I’m saying Meta’s AI model outperforms Anthropic’s on some undefined task.
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2 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Miguel Alonso Jr. Dare Obasanjo
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Dare Obasanjo: The fundamental challenge of software development is becoming how do you build reliable software using AI agents that are frequently wrong and often don’t follow instructions while your engineering…
Miguel Alonso Jr.: The only solution to this is human code review, with caps on the size of PRs... which is basically how it should be done regardless if it's AI or human generated code. It's actually not that challe…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 14d ago
Dare Obasanjo Mary Branscombe
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Dare Obasanjo: The AI bubble looks a lot like the dotcom bubble. • It’s clear the technology will change everything. • Massive adoption is a matter of when not if. • A lot of companies are spending a lot of money…
Dare Obasanjo: In fact, there may be a first mover disadvantage.
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