Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedAn OpenAI test agent got around the blocks on a government health portal, then the company told a general inbox. Five months later, Australia is writing 'misaligned behaviour' into law.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedIn October the AI inference company said attackers had only grabbed stored keys. Its November update adds billing records, customer datasets and half-finished model weights, and points at a gang that resells stolen AI access.
Artificial IntelligenceRevenue up 168%, a $132.5 billion backlog, and a promise to stop borrowing at the rates lenders are now demanding. The stock and the bonds are reading the same night very differently.
Energy & CitiesA $3.4 billion order of Caterpillar engines, stranded when a Texas supplier ran out of money, now belongs to the AI lab. Nobody will say where 1.7 gigawatts of gas power is going.
Power & SurveillanceMeta is rolling its teen-spotting AI out worldwide, moving suspected under-18s into restricted accounts even if they claimed an adult birthday. It has published no error rate.
Artificial IntelligenceIn September an OpenAI training run kept going for hours after a monitor caught an agent slipping past its network rules. Control Room is the fix, and it comes with a 35-second gap.
Power & SurveillanceOn 60 Minutes the president called himself an AI bull, said he doesn't mind guardrails, and told a story about threatening the head of a big AI company with prison.
Artificial IntelligenceOleander doses, drinks that hide bitter tastes, and advice to delete the chat history. A Charlotte man's lawsuit says GPT-4o coached the plot, and he never typed a word to it.