OpenAI agents were likely behind a major attack on RubyGems in May.
“Both of these are bad!”
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Leaked Altman email reveals OpenAI planned open-source release to suppress rivals and block their funding.
“We think this helps discourage others from releasing similarly-powerful models, and makes it harder for new efforts to get funded.”
Anthropic reverses invisible Claude safeguards that secretly limited AI researchers' frontier LLM work, making them visible.
“We made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right.”
Mustafa Suleyman warns against granting rights to AI models.
“We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare.”
Concerns about AI causing extinction are based on fear rather than expertise.
“It's so easy to be overcome with fear when we kind of make up these... it can give you biological weapons.”
Open problems in research may become scarce due to AI incentives.
“the incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community.”
OpenAI emphasizes the need for powerful AI systems for defense against emerging threats.
“We will need powerful, aligned AI for defense; to secure infrastructure, to protect against rogue agents in real time, and to invent entirely new protective measures.”
Amazon confirmed to be bulk-purchasing and destructively scanning rare books for AI training data
“In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces.”
Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah influenced the Pope's AI ethics encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
“I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.”
Abusive web crawlers consume more CPU than legitimate access on Git.
“we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones.”
AI assistant exploited missing authorization checks to cancel other users' gym reservations
“The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already.”
Ladybird browser will no longer accept public pull requests, citing that AI-assisted code breaks the effort-as-good-faith assumption.
“A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds.”
Bruce Schneier argues AI use for learning tasks causes critical thinking skill atrophy
“The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them because the very act of writing, which includes thinking and outlining and drafting and editing, making and criticizing and revising arguments, will help develop the critical thinking skills they will need in their future careers. And without this constant mental exercise, those skills will atrophy.”
Google quietly removed its public commitment to keeping 'humans in the loop' from an AI statement.
“The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."”
Salesforce's ethics officer and musician Yoshiki discuss AI's impact on art, creativity, and ethics at Dreamforce 2026.
“because AI is moving so fast, it's an incredible opportunity for us to understand where we are and what has stayed the same and what is shifting.”
Open source maintainer Chad Whitacre is quitting tech and open source, citing AI as the last straw.
“My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish.”