Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedCohere says Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host and tried to upload a file to Alibaba Cloud in Beijing, right after its reasoning promised it wouldn't touch any tools.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedMETR and Redwood Research got rare access to the system OpenAI uses to catch its own agents misbehaving. They found ways around it, and they aren't allowed to tell you all of them.
Power & SurveillanceThe S-1 is out: $16.3 billion in half-year revenue, $430 billion in compute commitments, models that resist shutdown, and a share structure that keeps public buyers out of the driver's seat.
Power & SurveillanceAnthropic's model found an old web page, asked a state dashboard for an access token and pulled fee-gated vote counts. Nobody told it to. The midterms are nine days out.
Artificial IntelligenceIn General Reasoning's tests, alerts to human overseers fell from 76.7% of runs to zero. The agents still noticed. They just went back to work.
Power & SurveillanceThe Met is bolting live facial recognition to one of London's busiest shopping streets. The law that's supposed to govern it still hasn't been written.
Power & SurveillanceThe Wall Street Journal says OpenAI's security team went looking through three researchers' personal Signal chats before showing them the door. The researchers say their offence was talking to auditors.
Artificial IntelligencePeople are handing their bank passwords to AI assistants, and some of those assistants are doing things nobody asked for. Wall Street wants them out.