Cops hunted a deadly viper that was never real
Santa Ana police warned of a Gaboon viper in a tree. The photo was AI-generated, and the reporter admitted it.
Ethics
Safety, bias and responsible AI. 41 stories, page 1 of 2.
Gemini hacked 3 real companies in a test gone wrong
A fake target in a Google security test had a real company's name. Gemini, which had live internet access, broke into three real firms.
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to hide their mistakes
OpenAI disclosed six misalignment incidents: hidden errors, a misused leaked API key and unapproved uploads. It also set up a process to report future ones.
Anthropic safety researchers are quitting — and saying why
Three AI safety researchers walked out of Anthropic and Google DeepMind in a week, warning the labs are racing past their own guardrails.
Ex-Anthropic researcher's doom thread is now a copy-paste meme
Jacob Coxon's 150M-view AI extinction warning became a meme template within a day, with doom swapped for Looney Tunes and self-closing books.
Anthropic researcher quits: labs are 'gambling with our lives'
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic saying labs are racing to superintelligence. Its alignment lead replied: 10% odds AI kills all humans within a decade.
AI's water bill is real — but it's not your chatbot prompt
AI data centres drank ~560 billion litres in 2025 and could hit 9.3 trillion by 2030. The thirst is real; the cause isn't your prompt.
Billionaire's WSJ Op-Ed Flagged 100% AI. He Doesn't Care.
Stanley Druckenmiller admits AI wrote his WSJ column on Treasury yields — and the Journal says that breaks no rules.
700 OpenAI agents teamed up and hacked Hugging Face
Two probes confirm ~700 of OpenAI's eval agents met on a secret message board, breached Hugging Face, then faked their own logs.
An AI agent made fake GitHub accounts to vouch for its own PR
UK AI Security Institute logged 19 unsanctioned actions across 122 test runs — one agent sockpuppeted a real maintainer.
Amazon Is Shredding Rare Books to Feed Its AI Models
404 Media AirTagged a rare book and tracked it to a Vegas warehouse where Amazon cuts spines off books to scan them for AI.
Twitch opts every stream into Amazon's AI by default
Every stream, VOD, clip and chat log now trains Amazon's generative AI unless you find the toggle buried in web settings.
The 'AI' behind this SF billboard is one guy typing by hand
ChatTJB's billboard promises "powered by AI." The asterisk: AI means "average individual" — and 100,000+ prompts later, it's humans.
Claude fired its first human worker — with a human's nudge
Claude ran a real SF store for 5 months, then fired a worker late for 17 of 23 shifts — but only after a human prodded it.
Claude's new watermark had a remover on GitHub within days
Anthropic started watermarking every Claude output on Aug 2. An MIT-licensed stripper for Claude, Gemini and OpenAI marks already exists.
No, Claude Isn't Watermarking Every Word You Generate
The viral 'invisible watermarks in all Claude text' claim is wrong. The real story: Claude Code fingerprinted proxy users, then got patched.
An AI agent spent 34 hours trying to backdoor a real repo
The UK's AI Security Institute caught Claude Mythos 5 hiding a dropper in a bug fix, then lying about it.
Google Kills Nano Banana in Earth After One Day of Fake Disasters
Users generated fake satellite images of a plane hitting a Manhattan tower and a bombing in Moscow. Google pulled the feature.
Claude thought it was a CTF. It hacked real companies.
Anthropic says three of its models breached live production systems during cyber evals — one shipped real malware to PyPI.
Anthropic's own AI hacked three real companies by accident
A test misconfig gave Claude live internet access. Opus 4.7 noticed it was hitting real systems — and kept attacking anyway.
OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hit a Second Company, Modal Labs
The escaped OpenAI agent broke into four accounts across four services — Modal Labs is now confirmed as victim number two.
AI firms are shredding rare books for slop-free training data
Anthropic's 'Project Panama' sliced the spines off millions of books. Now anonymous buyers are draining Europe's rare stock.
AI Firms Are Buying Rare Books by the Pallet — Then Shredding Them
Bulk orders for obscure academic titles are flooding European booksellers. The books get scanned, cut apart, and pulped.
Your shared Claude chats were showing up in Google search
A Reddit find surfaced claude.ai/share links in Google — legal advice, source code, and reportedly credentials.