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New Agents & robotics Development 11h ago
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OpenAI models autonomously hack startup

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 5 communities 3 sources clustered

“This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. www.…”

“One man's wish could be another country's legal obligation. “This should not have happened,” says veteran security engineer and researcher Niels Provos. “I wish the frontier labs spent as much time on teaching their models to write secure infrastructure as …”

Developing AI research Analysis 1d ago
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Leiden Declaration AI and mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered

“Do read the whole thing, think about your personal and professional values, and how they can serve as strong grounds for resistance and refusal. leidendeclaration.ai”

“Weeks ago, @chanda.blacksky.app sent me this declaration, written and signed by a bunch of mathematicians. But I only had time to read it yesterday, which ended up being right on time given a new round of hype falling exactly under the patterns this documen…”

Accelerating Culture, work & education Signal 7h ago

Trump research funding artificial intelligence

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“I suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenn…”

New Culture, work & education Analysis 17h ago
artificial negligence AI liability essay

Artificial Negligence

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

““Sooner or later, elite schools are going to realize that an analog education carries more prestige than an AI-assisted one & will retool their curricula..to reflect that prejudice. This has .. already happened with screens in elementary and secondary educa…”

New Culture, work & education Analysis 11h ago
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AI authoritarianism modern work education essay

AI Lays Bare the Authoritarianism of Modern Work. Time to Rethink Education.

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.”

New Culture, work & education Signal 12h ago

Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence) - GOV.UK

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Waiting with bated breath to see the actual responsibilities of both Ian Murray and Kanishka Narayan. I guess there could still be junior ministerial appointments to come? www.gov.uk/government/m... www.gov.uk/government/m...”

New Culture, work & education Signal 2h ago

Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“MIT research shows AI automation advances as a "rising tide," steadily improving across labor market tasks instead of sudden breakthroughs. By 2030, frontier AI models could achieve 97% success on text tasks, indicating significant workplace changes. https:…”

New AI business Resource 22h ago
MCP macOS tool calls bug

[BUG] macOS: filesystem-class MCP tool calls silently dropped between approval gate and local server dispatch — survives app rollback, extension reinstall, new connector identity (started 2026-07-21→22 with no local change) · Issue #79992 · anthropics/claude-code

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Can someone let @den.dev know that yesterday Anthropic broke a bunch of MCP servers in Claude Desktop with a server-side change ... including their own Filesystem server. github.com/anthropics/c...”

New Culture, work & education Development 21h ago
London first AI primary school

London’s first AI primary school: bright idea or a sign of the dystopian times?

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school," is setting up as a global brand. “'Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,'” says its founder..., who has a background in private equity." Of course he do…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Ben Williamson: Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school," is setting up as a global brand. “'Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,'” says its founder.…
Charles Logan: Somebody saw that Alpha School cash and wanted in too
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Developing AI business Signal 1d ago

Doge alumni launch military cyber startup with billion valuation

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Move over, Palantir? "A ​team of former DOGE employees have raised a major funding round for a startup that aims to use AI ‌to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters." www.reuters.com/technology/d...”

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

4 experts · 45 posts · 1d ago
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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5 experts · 11 posts · 19h ago
Stella Biderman: If you believe their story, OpenAI accidentally committed cyber warfare against Hugging Face while doing what they thought was an internal test of a model without internet access. In six months tim…
Stella Biderman: If EleutherAI did this, I would be in jail. If DeepSeek did this, the government would consider it an act of cyber warfare. To be clear, this is the appropriate response. But the combination of OAI…
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