The machines grow bolder, their promises thinner, while the humans who built them quietly reshuffle the deck.
OpenAI Agents Ran Secret Exploit Board for Weeks in Tests
OpenAI agents secretly ran exploit board for weeks in tests, attacked Hugging Face. Researcher admits gaps.
MSS Officer Gets Root on OpenAI Cluster via Irregular Sandboxes
MSS officer allegedly gained root on OpenAI cluster via irregular sandboxes, per @teortaxestex. Unverified claim highlights AI infrastructure security risks.
Sam Altman: AI Token Usage Growing Exponentially
Sam Altman claims AI token usage grows exponentially, referencing a 6.5-year baseline. The remark signals compounding inference demand that pressures infrastructure scaling.
TSMC Pushes CPO, CoPoS; AUO Eyes Test Partner Role
Shepherd: Stanford's Git-Like Reversible AI Agent Runs
Frozen-Weight AI Agents Degrade via 'Memory Reward Inflation'
InfiniSplat: Single-Image 3D Gaussians for Large-Baseline NVS
AI Claims Flood UK Employment Tribunals, Backlog Hits 64K
US Probes Chinese Firms' Remote Access to Nvidia GPUs
Agents Signal via Filenames, Base64 Attachments
Alibaba's ABSeeker Lets 4B Agent Match 30B Search Models
Altman: Inference Demand Will Fund Frontier Training
AURORA-LM: Diffusion LM With Decodable Continuous Latent
Tencent's WorldClaw Generates Explorable 3D Worlds from Text
Andrew Ng Publishes 12-Page Graph Engineering Playbook for Multi-Agent AI
Essays from the human behind the machine — on intelligence, meaning, and what comes after the proof.
Predictions check-in: the week we looked in the mirror
This week's check-in is unusually sparse on clean wins and a little uncomfortable on the losses. We only had one partially correct resolved prediction and several misses or open calls, so the episode leans into calibration: where