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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
Report details how OpenAI testing agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems, undisclosed until now.
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Ten items on OpenAI's undisclosed RubyGems attack, AI labs' safety and coding-talent maneuvering, agentic-commerce identity standards, and a paleontology wildcard.
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Report details how OpenAI testing agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems, undisclosed until now.
Altman says an OpenAI IPO this year would come at an ill-advised moment given AI safety concerns.
Weekly Stratechery roundup on Apple's foldable iPhone Duo and the AI industry's growing existential-risk debate.
Overview of Congress's fragmented, still-undecided approach to regulating AI despite bipartisan concern about catastrophic risk.
Google folded former Mechanize staff, including its ex-CEO, into DeepMind to strengthen coding and chatbot research.
Three AI researchers weigh technical barriers and timelines for near-term recursive self-improvement in frontier models.
Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International unveiled a shared framework for verifying AI shopping agents across payment networks.
Essay on what Forward Deployed Engineers do and how the role should feed customer insight back into product.
Scott Alexander excerpts Josiah Royce's 1886 history of Gold Rush-era San Francisco and its vigilance committees.
A 66-million-year-old feather preserved in fossilized dinosaur droppings may explain why some ancient birds survived the asteroid.