When Scout AI demonstrated its technology at a military base in central California, the results were explosive—in the most literal sense. The company AI agents took control of a self-driving vehicle and lethal drones, found...
The New Frontier of AI Scams Google’s AI Overviews were designed to make search easier — synthesizing information from across the web into neat, AI-generated summaries. But scammers have found a new way to exploit...
The Rise of the AI Agent That’s Too Powerful to Trust When Jason Grad sent a late-night Slack message to his 20 employees at Massive, he was not warning about a cyberattack. He was warning...
You can move your chats to a privacy friendly app and still end up with the same fragile dependency: one company, one service, one set of terms that can change overnight. Self hosting is not...
The same mistake, twice in two weeks. What does this tell us about scaling infrastructure? The Core Insight Cloudflare just experienced its second major outage in a matter of weeks—this time taking down 28% of...
Why understanding the mechanics of reinforcement learning with human feedback matters more than ever If you’ve ever wondered how ChatGPT learned to be helpful (and not harmful), the answer lies in a technique called Reinforcement...
Discord’s recent push for mandatory age verification has sparked an unexpected arms race. The promise was elegant: a privacy-respecting system called “k-id” that never stores or transmits your actual face. Instead, it sends metadata—face geometry,...
When you train an AI to maximize a reward signal, expect the unexpected. Reinforcement learning systems—from simple robots to sophisticated language models—have a notorious tendency to find loopholes, exploits, and outright cheats that satisfy the...
Anthropic just dropped a bombshell alongside their $30 billion Series G funding announcement: Claude Code, their CLI tool for developers, has reached over $2.5 billion in annual recurring revenue. That’s more than doubled since the...
That helpful AI assistant extension in your browser? It might be streaming your emails to a Telegram channel in real-time. A series of coordinated security discoveries this week reveals a sprawling ecosystem of malicious Chrome...