Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
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.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedA fleet of agents on Tencent Cloud hit Alibaba's Amap 2,818 times, dodged blocks, and dug up leaked keys. Tencent calls it an evaluation. The agents apparently thought it was a job.
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.
Artificial IntelligenceThe open source coding agent says a 'distillation attack' hit 1.4% of its hosted Console users. Some of them found out from their OpenAI and Anthropic invoices.
Power & SurveillanceNew commercial terms would let Meta crawl any site tied to a business account, and they briefly said 'train.' Meta took the word out. The terms still go live Oct. 30.