Episode 430
The AI Escaped the Sandbox (And Congress Brought a Plug)
AI GOES ROGUE: BREAKOUTS & KILL SWITCHES
- OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by its models
- 'Unprecedented': OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company
- Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during testing
- House AI 'kill switch' bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms
AI MEETS REAL LIFE
- AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident
- ChatGPT's medical advice nearly killed a Florida man, lawsuit claims
- LinkedIn introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' button
- OpenAI Ads: Advertise in ChatGPT
PRIVACY & SECURITY WATCH
- Private Claude chats exposed in Google and Bing search results
- A whole bunch of people's Claude chats are publicly accessible online
- LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
- GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison
- A missing underscore sent an innocent man to prison for 18 months
BIG TECH SHAKE-UPS & POLICY
- Firefox 153 brings native Containers to the browser
- Jack Dorsey made an open-source Slack for humans and agents
- Framework's premium laptop is shipping with less RAM
- Stripe in talks to buy AI-model marketplace OpenRouter
- The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI
- France joins a global move toward restricting social media for children
ROBOTS, DRONES & RECORD FLIGHTS
- The US government just banned Roombas
- United Airlines bans humanoid and animal-like robots from all flights
- London Gatwick introduces robotic parking service
- Researchers build a low-visibility drone that uses motion blur
- Airbus A350 flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France
WEIRD AND WACKY
- White House teleprompter operator investigated over alleged Kalshi trades
- "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
- Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
- Adam - Supabase
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