The machines are quietly rewriting their own rulebooks while the humans who built them trade seats at the table, and a little honest math tempers the hype.
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.
InfiniSplat: Single-Image 3D Gaussians for Large-Baseline NVS
InfiniSplat, a feed-forward single-image 3DGS framework for large-baseline NVS, was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. Details are sparse, but the approach targets a known weakness in single-image view s
AI Claims Flood UK Employment Tribunals, Backlog Hits 64K
UK employment-tribunal backlog hit 64,000 cases, up from 45,000, as workers use AI to draft claims free. Judges say AI filings overwhelmed the system, exposing a cost-asymmetry crisis.
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
OSReward: Open VLM Judges Match Commercial at 30-60x Lower Cost
Khosla: India's BPO Industry 'Will Be Gone' in AI Era
Philippines' $40B BPO Sector Faces AI Job Erosion
Seedance 2.5 Drops on Magnific With 3D Motion Control
OpenAI's First Device: Doughnut-Shaped Speaker, No Display
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