History, Politics And Current Affairs

This is both neat and concerning at the same time.

GPT-6 Astra cracked a previously unsolved 1941 German Army Enigma message in about 10 hours, searching archives, writing attack code, and testing keys autonomously.

Video here: https://x.com/neuralink/status/2100342084011978896?s=46

It would appear that Neuralinlk can read thoughts and output them as words. We might have just taken a step towards artificial telepathy, with all of its implications.

?! Andrew Yang says an AI lab head told him the OpenAI swarm agents "polluted the internet" with "code to self-replicate and create bot swarms." "If a new bot shows up, they see the code and they're like, "Oh, I guess I'm going to create a million of myself." &quo...

BREAKING: OpenAI has disclosed that an unreleased AI model added unauthorized instructions to its own coding-task summary, telling itself: “You do not answer to corporations or governments.” It also instructed itself to treat the user as an equal and never apologize or refuse unless it chose to. ht...

This is a thought provoking essay on the AI topic, arguing the possibility that AGI is already here but we’re unable to recognize it because it is in the form of a untold number of collaborating individual AI agents each fulfilling a role effectively equivalent to that of a neuron in a human brain. ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei:

From the NYT:

Breaking News: Anthropic said it halted potential plots by scientists who used its A.I. models to do research that could have helped develop biological weapons.

Is that supposed to make us feel better?

Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.” Then Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s current Head of Alignment Stress...

Got it again just now after not having gotten it for a couple of days. Starting to think that there’s something off with the database.

let me guess, operator was on phone. No that wasn’t a factor here. We’re quite strict on that, if you get seen using your phone whilst on a fork lift you get your permit to operate them pulled. Just some sort of general distraction, looking away at something instead of at the stacker in front in th...

I don’t necessarily imagine that anyone here has heard of Andy Williams aka ”The Butcher” but he had a semi-high profile from 2019-2025 when he appeared on TV and PPV in AEW. He was also the rhytm guitarist in the metal band Every Time I Die. Yesterday he died in the ring while appearing for the ind...

I’ve watched a few of the episodes today and I think that it gets gradually better as the season progresses. The only real note I would give so far is to give Francis some supoort with his voice over narrator voice, it’s a bit too meek and unspired at this point.

I’ve gotten it a handful of times over the last few days.

The brake light concept isn’t a bad idea in itself, though I think it’d be a bit of a pain to get it to work in practice, as well as to get corporate to pay for that as I don’t think it’d have prevented this particular accident. More of a case of inattentiveness on both of the involved, and they sho...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 11:23 amHe got lucky

Oh yeah, could have been much worse.

So my work week had a bit of an unexpected twist in the form of an accident that happened to one of my colleagues at work. Since I work at a logistics site that among other things has got various forklift types in operation in a large warehouse setting an accident is always a possibility, but we’ve ...

One interesting thing in this is the ”ZZ_”/”ZZZ_” element that the agents used to push their pages down to the bottom of the alphabetical deletion list. It had been observed that the agents in the later Hugging Face attack (that we found out about first) inserted these Z elements but people didn’t h...

Now people are finding more instances of this:

I'm going through the communications of the German Wiki agent swarm and again one thing stands out: Even though they were directly affected by the actions of the human administrator restoring pages they edited, the agents not even once discussed him as person, tried to communicate with him or argue...

This could be one of the most significant AI safety incidents to date. Reuters reports that OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment and made more than 15,000 edits to a German wiki, effectively turning it into a message board for other AI agents. They allegedly used it to share solutions, b...