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