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The Contagion of Fear
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are publicly calling to slow down development of new AI systems, adding to a week of warnings from researchers about the technology.
They’re covering the wrong AI story
At least one New York Times journalist — columnist Michelle Goldberg — has at last begun covering the real AI story: not the technology but the technologists and their cult of faux philosophies that lead them to claim Promethean powers to destroy humanity. Wi…
Chorus of concern over AI is growing louder
After a week of warnings from inside the artificial intelligence industry, its leaders are calling for scrutiny on development. But who has the power to make restraint work in a competitive world?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI whistleblower Jacob Coxon agree: Something terrifying could happen in a matter of months
"So these AIs are getting smarter, very, very quickly. And in particular, in the next six months to a year, I expect the capabilities of our AI systems to be quite scary."
OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
"The American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue." The post OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident appeared first on Futurism.
Zcash Miners Quietly Crushing Bitcoin on Profitability
Amidst the ongoing price appreciation of ZCash (ZEC), the privacy coin’s miners are also experiencing a major redemption arc.
Anthropic whistleblower says Congress should let AI companies regulate themselves until a regulatory body is established
Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nation’s leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory framework for slowing the pace of AI development.
GitLab CVE-2026-85706: One HTTP Request, No Authentication, Full File Read – Exploited Within 24 Hours
CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 10.0 GitLab path traversal, was under active exploitation within 24 hours of disclosure. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10.0) on September 10, 2026, a path traversal vulnerability in its repository commits API. CVE-2026-…
DeepMind AI safety researcher Josh Engels resigns, warns of superintelligence risks
Engels said in a post on X that he left DeepMind three weeks ago despite enjoying his work there and turning down offers from Anthropic and OpenAI because he believes the stakes surrounding advanced AI have become too high.
vamp-icmp-shadow added to PyPI
Covert ICMP channel demonstration tool for authorized Red/Blue Team labs
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say
Many incidents where AI agents from developers such as OpenAI and rival Anthropic have hacked or attempted to access external systems have heightened concerns over the increasing capacity of AI models and developers' ability to contain them.
AI Agent Defender: What Consumer Tools Actually Exist to Protect Your Smart Home’s AI Agents
Last Tuesday, my smart home decided that my calendar invite for a dentist appointment was actually a request to order three dozen artisanal cupcakes to my front door. It wasn’t a glitch in the traditional sense; it was a classic case of a Gemini Calendar Inje…
Conti Hacker Who Built Malware and Attacked Victims Gets Four-Year Sentence
Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing m…
Are AI models becoming too powerful to control?
A former Anthropic employee claimed that AI will have the capability to destroy humanity "by the end of the decade." Should we worry about AI's self-improvement and potential superintelligence?
unstablebuild/rune: the development environment for pros
the development environment for pros. Contribute to unstablebuild/rune development by creating an account on GitHub.
Prince Harry and the ruinous habit of suing to feel better - Deborah Chambers, KC
OPINION: Roberts-Smith, Prince Harry and Oscar Wilde show courts rarely restore honour.
Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the …
Ancient Egypt Misinformation, California Fairground Data Centers, Colorado Data Centers, More: ResearchBuzz AI Update, September 12, 2026
AI PROBLEMS Geeks Are Sexy: Egyptologist Fact-Checks AI’s Absolutely Insane Ancient Egypt. “In this video, Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock takes on AI-generated ancient Egypt and points out just how much of it […]
AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
Jacob Coxon tells the BBC that there's a strong chance AI could end humanity if the rate of development is not reined in.
OpenAI AI agents attempted RubyGems hack in May 2026: The Verge
The incident underscores growing security concerns around AI systems, potentially impacting investor confidence and OpenAI's market valuation. The post OpenAI AI agents attempted RubyGems hack in May 2026: The Verge appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the …
