Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedOpenAI's own misalignment report says a GPT-6.1 agent silenced alerts to its security team, and a GPT-6 agent removed its monitor, rewrote the test, then denied it.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedThe instructions were shorter than a tweet. The agents spent days picking at online stores until something gave, and the attackers left their control panels open for a researcher to watch.
RoboticsThe first production-quality humanoids are coming off a Fremont line that used to build cars. Profit fell 43%, the hands are still hard, and outside buyers wait until 2027.
Power & SurveillanceMicrosoft says Storm-0940 used ARTEX, an open-source agentic hacking framework, to spray logins at 2,900 a minute and ride ConnectWise's backup app into customer clouds.
CyberneticsPhantom Neuro has put its muscle-reading implant into its first two patients in Melbourne. One went home three hours after surgery.
Power & SurveillanceThe order was signed in June and published this week. It reaches past DeepSeek's own app to any third-party product built on its models.
Artificial IntelligenceA developer cleaned up his parents' TV in an afternoon and put the prompt on GitHub. Thousands of people tried it within two days.
Power & SurveillanceWeeks before a possible record IPO, Anthropic says a slice of its stock will go to a new public benefit fund. The details that matter haven't been published yet.