Weekly#708

  • “…Hugging Face hack: a tranche of nearly one million links from internet link-shortening services that OpenAI’s agents created from July 9 through July 13 in order to help conduct the cyberattack…”
  • Google DeepMind Exodus Sparks VC Frenzy for AI’s Next Big Thing
  • There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before
  • Andreessen Horowitz launches AI school as college alternative
  • Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
  • Meta’s Muse AI agent downloads are surging
  • Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
  • Thorsten Ball / What I believe about the future of software development
  • Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
  • Editorial diagram design
  • Monzo in talks with Brazil’s Nubank about sale (FT)
  • “…One in ten words spoken in Britain’s parliamentary debates, and one in seven in America’s House of Representatives, are probably drafted by AI…”

Weekly#707

  • Portal by Spotify cut Claude Code token usage by 90%
  • AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
  • Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (WSJ)
  • OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030 (FT)
  • Anthropic is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year
  • Anthropic is partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation
  • “…It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying…”
  • U.S. acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space
  • “…“Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits among C++, C# and TypeScript as the best supported languages for internal development in the company…”
  • How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms
  • Large-Scale Automated Dependency Analysis Across Uber’s Service Mesh
  • DoorDash Uses Multi Agent LLMs to Clean up 60,000 Feature Flags
  • Ant International embeds AI agents across all platforms
  • A U.S. Strategy to Secure Geopolitical Advantage on an Uncertain Path to Superintelligence

Weekly#706

  • Anthropic report: 5 ways Claude was exploited for war, spying and repression
  • Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
  • We Must Pace the Frontier
  • Halving the Time: How Uber Eats Rebuilt Its Search Pipeline
  • A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
  • Does AI stop children from learning?
  • “…solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.Proving things without comprehending them is, they argue, a threat to intellectual work in general…”
  • 5 amazing visuals show how the male fruit fly’s brain map is advancing neuroscience
  • Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
  • OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident
  • Meta debuts Muse, its long-planned personal AI agent
  • Everything Apple announced at the foldable iPhone Duo launch
  • The AI doomsday scenarios
    • Kill switch:Rogue AIs skilled in hacking could take control of entire data centres and replicate themselves across various sites to prevent humans from “pulling the plug”.
    • Infrastructure takeover:AI hackers could seize control of energy, financial and communications infrastructure
    • Biological attack:a superintelligent system would release biological weapons
    • War: trick human operators into launching military conflict

Weekly#705

  • OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
  • OpenAI’s Astra leans into agentic tasks and safety
  • Korea’s Memory Chip Lead Over China Set to Grow
  • Tesla launches steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi in Austin
  • New York City Public Schools banning AI use through middle school starting this year
  • NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
  • OpenClaw 2.0 is here
  • Latency Patterns for Faster AI Applications
  • Apple to Kick Off Ternus Era With Its Biggest-Ever Slate of New Products
  • The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
  • Shopify Introduces Gisting: Compressing LLM System Prompts into Learned Tokens
  • Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
  • Any Human Ever
  • The Silo 18 and 17
  • The quality you should most wish for your children
  • Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale
  • Nvidia aims to broaden its AI dominance with Hugging Face deal…”…Nvidia wants to be more than a really good chip designer — and it’s using its deep pockets to tighten its grip on the software and development tools that power the AI supply chain…”
  • How I Run Two AI Coding Agents on One Codebase
  • ‘Unfinished business’: Travis Kalanick revisits robotaxis with new start-up (FT)
  • The chicken farms that become ‘pathogen sponges’ for superbugs (FT)
  • ‘RAMageddon’ hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply (FT)
  • The AI Shift Turning Everyday Investors Into Mini Quant Funds (WSJ)
  • Nvidia is the central bank of AI (The Economist)…”…Last year Nvidia made about 90 such investments, nearly twice as many as two years earlier. This year it has already agreed another 60-odd…”