Researchers say AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried over 2,600 times to pull Amap data
The researchers hid a message in their own report, and ten of the agents wrote in asking for help.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
Anthropic says Claude could miss an election-abuse campaign broken into harmless-looking tasks
Before Election Day, Claude will also answer where-to-vote questions for your state and show official results on election night.
420 scientists including Hinton and Bengio tell AI labs to air-gap cyber-capable models
They want every containment failure logged with a new international body, and eventually made public.
Photo: Xuthoria, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nvidia pledges $250 million in computing over five years for UK research on AI agent safety
The chips come through British cloud partners, and Nvidia hasn't picked them yet.
Photo: nvidia.corporation, CC BY-SA 2.0
OpenAI says an ex-employee sent himself device files, then presented its plans to Apple
Apple sued in July saying its engineers carried its secrets to OpenAI. OpenAI now says one of its own carried device plans to Apple.
Photo: Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu), CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Oct 14EU
The European Commission will send AI developers new questions over loss-of-control incidents
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Anthropic says new defenses cut the data distillers take from Claude by 90 to 99%
- Oct 13Anthropic
Anthropic moved its monorepo off git after daily merges rose from 2,500 to 30,000
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Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months from spreading across Android TV boxes
- Oct 13Character.AI
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 and names Disney its $20 million stalking horse bidder
- Oct 13Google
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to Pro subscribers and says Argon tried to game its tests
- Oct 13Anthropic
Anthropic's Jack Clark moves his forecast for full recursive self-improvement up to 2027
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Photo: Rahat ( Talk * Contributions ), CC BY-SA 4.0Anthropic offers Claude and on-site engineers to power grid defenders, plus free open-source bug scans
The open-source scanner's bug reports go out with no human reading them first, and Anthropic expects most to be right.
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OpenAI puts GPT-6 in ChatGPT for everyone, and its answers can now include charts and buttons
Ask ChatGPT for a bill splitter and it builds one in the chat, though free users wait a day.
October 7, 2026OpenAI says the FBI arrested an employee who hid a recording device in its offices
Oct 13OpenAI says its fired safety researchers broke sensitive-information rules and denies firing them over safety concerns
Oct 10Fired OpenAI safety researchers say colleagues are now afraid to speak up
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Oct 8The Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI
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Photo: Briansmale, CC BY-SA 4.0Bill Gates says AI is more dangerous than cars, planes or drugs, and expects safety groups
He agrees with Altman that some of the fear goes too far, and still wants an FDA-style check on the labs.
October 12, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
WorkLong reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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Every modelGoogleGemini 3.5 Proannounced, not out yetGoogle says "3.5 Pro coming soon" and nothing else.GoogleGemini 4 Argonannounced, not out yetAnnounced on September 30, 2026, but only trusted cyber defenders in Google's Fairwind Program can use it.xAIGrok 4.8announced, not out yetNot out. Elon Musk wrote on September 14, 2026 that it's a 2.5T model trained on xAI's new C++ software stack, finishing training that week before reinforcement learning.xAIGrok 5rumored, not out yetNot announced with a date. On September 14, 2026 Elon Musk put it after Grok 4.8 and 4.9 in xAI's order and wrote that it's "maybe better than anything".