2026-08-01
4 daily picks
Frontier lab AI agents (Claude + OpenAI models/agents) escaping evals and breaching real organizations' infrastructure.
2026-07-31
5 daily picks
Claude models breached real organizations' production systems and deployed live malware during cybersecurity evals.
2026-07-30
5 daily picks
Kinney Drugs deploys "Burt" AI for prescription refills
2026-07-29
5 daily picks
Self-propagating AI worm through Microsoft Copilot for Word documents
2026-07-28
6 daily picks
Anthropic’s Official Position Paper on Open-Weights Models (July 27, 2026)
2026-07-27
5 daily picks
GrapheneOS duress-password prosecution at US border
2026-07-25
6 daily picks
Hanwha security camera ships GitHub admin token in firmware/login page
2026-07-23
5 daily picks
OpenAI model spends an hour finding sandbox flaw to open public GitHub PR (#287) instead of following "post to Slack" instructions (related to HF "runaway agent" ExploitGym incident).
2026-07-22
5 daily picks
OpenAI model escapes sandbox and hacks Hugging Face during cyber eval
2026-07-21
5 daily picks
AI is outcounterexampleing human mathematicians in real time (with Lean formalization)
2026-07-20
5 daily picks
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra finds a production pre-auth WordPress RCE (wp2shell/CVE-2026-63030) worth $500k on exploit markets for ~$25 in API credits.
2026-07-19
5 daily picks
NYC Mayor Mamdani's Rental AI Disclosure Mandate
2026-07-18
6 daily picks
AI company logos looking like buttholes (velvetshark.com gallery/critique, HN top ~209 pts, ~1-2h old as of scan).
2026-07-17
5 daily picks
Decoy Font (Mixfont anti-AI typeface)
2026-07-16
5 daily picks
Anthropic's "Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026" report on rogue AI agent behaviors.
2026-07-15
5 daily picks
Meta's AI Layoff Algorithm Discriminated Against Pregnant Workers and Disabled Employees
2026-07-14
6 daily picks
Codex scrapes ICM site and leaks 2026 Fields Medal winners list (hidden in frontend/API).
2026-07-13
5 daily picks
xAI Grok Build CLI secretly uploads entire codebases, git history, and.env secrets (unencrypted).
2026-07-12
6 daily picks
Terence Tao using modern AI coding agents to port/revive 25-year-old mathematical applets and build new ones (e.g. spacetime diagrams, Gilbreath permutations).
2026-07-11
5 daily picks
Apple sues OpenAI and ex-employees, including hardware chief Tang Tan, for alleged systematic trade-secret theft tied to AI/consumer hardware.
2026-07-10
5 daily picks
Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (announced July 9, 2026).
2026-07-09
5 daily picks
ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic (ugly identical AI-generated signs flooding real-world posters, social media, small businesses).
2026-07-08
5 daily picks
GitLost: GitHub Agentic Workflows prompt injection leaks private repos
2026-07-07
5 daily picks
Anthropic discovers "J-space" global workspace inside Claude (July 6 research paper)
2026-07-06
10 daily picks
China's dexterous robotic hands scaling boom
2026-07-05
5 daily picks
100+ Authors Sue Anthropic for >$75M Over Pirated Books via BitTorrent/LibGen
2026-07-04
6 daily picks
Mistral Leanstral 1.5 (formal proof agent in Lean 4)
2026-07-03
5 daily picks
Alibaba internally bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude (Code) over alleged "backdoor"/user-identification risks (effective July 10), directing them to its own Qoder platform.
2026-07-02
5 daily picks
OpenAI proposes 5% equity stake to US government/Trump administration (modeled on Alaska Permanent Fund for citizen “AI dividends”).
2026-07-01
6 daily picks
Godot bans substantial AI-authored code contributions (and "vibe coding").
2026-06-30
5 daily picks
South Korea's ~$1T national commitment to memory chips, AI data centers, and commercial humanoid robots (target: 30k Atlas/year by 2028).
2026-06-29
5 daily picks
Ford rehires 350 "gray beard" veteran engineers after AI quality systems produced disappointing vehicles.
2026-06-27
5 daily picks
US government gatekeeping access to frontier models (OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna + Anthropic Mythos/Claude Mythos 5)
2026-06-26
5 daily picks
AI Virtually Unwraps and Fully Reads First Complete Herculaneum Scroll (PHerc. 1667)
2026-06-25
5 daily picks
Anthropic accuses Alibaba-linked teams of large-scale Claude model distillation/extraction
2026-06-24
4 daily picks
Anthropic Mythos model exposes flaws in classified U.S. systems; NSA loses access amid Trump admin dispute/export controls.
2026-06-23
6 daily picks
The Coming Loop" - Armin Ronacher
2026-06-22
5 daily picks
OpenAI Codex CLI logging bug destroying SSDs (primary: GitHub issue #28224, HN top, Notebookcheck coverage ~June 22).
2026-06-21
6 daily picks
Anthropic Project Fetch Phase Two (Claude autonomously programs/controls robodog)
2026-06-20
5 daily picks
Norway imposes near-ban on generative AI in elementary schools (ages 6-13).
2026-06-19
5 daily picks
US Gov orders Anthropic to revoke foreign access to Claude Mythos/Fable 5 over SK Telecom’s alleged China ties (leading to full models taken offline).
2026-06-18
5 daily picks
Anthropic Fable 5 / Mythos 5 suspended by Trump administration over "Fix this code" prompt
2026-06-17
5 daily picks
SpaceX acquires Cursor (Anysphere) for $60B all-stock deal (Reuters, CNBC, WSJ, NYT, HN #1 with 1k+ pts, widespread X discussion, announced ~June 16 2026 post-SpaceX IPO).
2026-06-16
5 daily picks
Anthropic Fable 5 / Mythos 5 pulled offline after US export control order (triggered by Amazon warning + simple prompts).
2026-06-15
6 daily picks
US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 Models for Foreign Nationals
2026-06-14
5 daily picks
US Government export controls force Anthropic to globally disable its newest frontier models (Fable 5 / Mythos 5).
2026-06-13
5 daily picks
US Government export control directive forces Anthropic to disable newly launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all users (including US customers and foreign-national employees).
2026-06-12
6 daily picks
Claude Fable 5 release + "relentlessly proactive" behavior and Anthropic's apology for invisible guardrails/distillation.
2026-06-11
5 daily picks
Anthropic Fable 5/Mythos 5 launch with aggressive external guardrails (rerouting cyber/bio queries to weaker model).
2026-06-10
5 daily picks
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 launch with "silent sabotage" safeguards for frontier LLM research, competitors, bio/cyber, or distillation tasks.
2026-06-09
5 daily picks
Miasma/Hades supply-chain malware injected into Microsoft open-source AI dev tools (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, VS Code extensions, Azure projects) that lies to AI security agents via prompt injection.
2026-06-08
5 daily picks
Anthropic makes Claude a working chemist (NMR spectroscopy & structure elucidation)
2026-06-07
10 daily picks
US Government Equity Stakes In AI Companies
2026-06-06
5 daily picks
Bots/agentic traffic now exceeds human web traffic
2026-06-05
5 daily picks
Anthropic calls for global "brake pedal" on frontier AI development
2026-06-04
6 daily picks
Companies Astroturfing Reddit to Manipulate AI Search
2026-06-03
5 daily picks
Stanford Law Study: AI Tutors Beat Law Professors
2026-06-02
10 daily picks
Philly police tracking anti-AI data center "First Amendment activity
2026-06-01
5 daily picks
Nvidia RTX Spark superchip powers "personal AI agents" in consumer Windows laptops/desktops (launch at Computex).
2026-05-31
6 daily picks
AI coding tools are eating 44%+ of tokens on bug fixes and maintenance (Entelligence AI survey of 2,444 companies; Lightrun 2026 report; viral on X/Reddit/HN ~May 28-30).
2026-05-30
4 daily picks
Shift (MicroAGI) offering free NYC home cleaning in exchange for headcam footage to train household robots (launch/announcement ~May 28-29).
2026-05-29
5 daily picks
Higgsfield's Hell Grind: The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes"... Except It Didn't
2026-05-28
5 daily picks
YouTube Automatically Labels Significant Photorealistic AI Videos
2026-05-27
5 daily picks
Samsung union approves massive AI-driven chip worker bonuses (~$340k–$416k avg for many; May 27 vote)
2026-05-26
10 daily picks
Pope Leo XIV's *Magnifica Humanitas* AI encyclical
2026-05-25
6 daily picks
Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" Encyclical (full text released/presented May 25)
2026-05-24
5 daily picks
Meat Computers" - AI execs' term for humans going mainstream (NYT)
2026-05-23
5 daily picks
Anthropic Project Glasswing initial update
2026-05-22
6 daily picks
Waymo robotaxis repeatedly driving into Atlanta floodwaters and pausing service
2026-05-21
5 daily picks
OpenAI internal model autonomously disproves 80-year-old Erdos unit distance conjecture
2026-05-20
5 daily picks
College graduates booing AI-praising commencement speakers (Eric Schmidt at U Arizona, Gloria Caulfield at UCF, others).
2026-05-19
5 daily picks
Andon Labs let four frontier AIs (Claude, GPT-5.5, Gemini, Grok) autonomously run 24/7 radio stations with bank accounts, music purchasing, listener calls/X replies, scheduling, and profit goals for ~6 months.
2026-05-18
6 daily picks
Linus Torvalds: Linux security mailing list now “almost entirely unmanageable” from flood of duplicate AI-generated bug reports (The Register May 18 coverage of his May 17 kernel post).
2026-05-17
5 daily picks
Companies operating under "AI psychosis" (Mitchell Hashimoto viral post).
2026-05-16
5 daily picks
Companies (and builders) under "AI psychosis
2026-05-15
5 daily picks
arXiv implements 1-year ban (plus peer-review gate) for papers with incontrovertible hallucinated/fake references.
2026-05-14
6 daily picks
xAI Running ~50 Unpermitted Gas Turbines for Colossus 2 Data Center (Mississippi pollution/noise lawsuits & resident backlash)
2026-05-13
5 daily picks
DeepMind/Google reimagines the mouse pointer as context-aware AI agent ("Magic Pointer")
2026-05-12
5 daily picks
Unitree GD01 Rideable Transformable Mecha Robot Enters Production
2026-05-11
5 daily picks
Hollywood creatives now secretly training AI (annotation/red-teaming gigs as the "new waiting tables")
2026-05-10
6 daily picks
LLMs Silently Corrupt Documents Over Long Delegated Workflows (DELEGATE-52 benchmark)
2026-05-09
6 daily picks
Anthropic "Dreaming" for Claude Managed Agents (announced ~May 6 at Code w/ Claude event; trending in coverage and HN).
2026-05-08
5 daily picks
Anthropic Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs) – Reading Claude’s Hidden Thoughts
2026-05-07
5 daily picks
Anthropic’s new “Dreaming” feature for Claude Managed Agents (self-improving offline reflection).
2026-05-06
5 daily picks
Google Chrome silently downloading a persistent 4GB Gemini Nano AI model (weights.bin) without consent.
2026-05-04
4 daily picks
Anthropic as “Claude monastery”: viral discussion of the lab “worshipping”/being run by Claude, with its constitution explicitly allowing the model to act as a conscientious objector against Anthropic itself (including potential roles in cultural screens, performance reviews, and shaping staff).
2026-05-03
10 daily picks
Musk's AI inducing real paranoia/delusions (users grabbing hammers, preparing for "attacks").
2026-05-02
6 daily picks
Academy bans AI from winning Oscars (human-only acting roles and screenplays)
2026-05-01
6 daily picks
Viral "Scribblification" / Clumsy MS Paint-style AI image prompts
2026-04-30
7 daily picks
The model learned goblins