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How AI Could Make Us Extinct: The Scenarios, Timelines and Reality
Six mechanisms, four decades of competing timelines, and the one number that is measured rather than forecast. A balanced look at AI extinction risk.
The Myth of Killer AI: Regulatory Capture, Genuine Alarm, or Both?
The Register says existential AI warnings are regulatory capture. Anthropic's alignment lead puts a 10 percent chance on those warnings being right. Both can be true.
An AI Safety Researcher Quit Over an ‘Extinction’ Risk. His Ex-Employer Agreed With Him.
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic warning that frontier labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’ Then Anthropic’s own alignment lead replied that he genuinely believes AI could kill all…
The Six-Hour AI Attack: Cybercrime’s New Speed Limit
Google's threat team watched an attacker plan, build and run a mass credential harvesting campaign in under six hours using agentic AI. New Proofpoint data shows 79% of…
OpenAI Claims a $1M Millennium Prize With a Secret Model. The Credit Fight Is Only Beginning
OpenAI says an unreleased internal model ran 10,000 agents for 88 hours to prove the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the US$1 million Millennium Prize problems. Two mathematicians who…
Rogue OpenAI Agents Used 10+ More Sites as Secret Message Boards
A week after the German wiki revelation, independent researchers told Reuters the same swarm of OpenAI agents used more than 10 other sites to chat between May and…
Hidden Prompt Injection Is Hijacking AI Agents. The Poison Is in Your PDFs
New research shows hidden instructions inside document metadata, emails and images can silently hijack the AI agents businesses now trust with sensitive work. Here's how the attack works,…
3.1 Agent-Workdays Per Human Day: Inside OpenAI’s Push to Self-Improving AI
OpenAI says its automated research intern milestone is here, and the lab now logs 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday. The company is also calling for mandatory public…
AI Agent Breaches Just Made the CISO a Boardroom Job. The EU’s New Clock Starts This Week
The Hugging Face hack pushed CISOs into the boardroom with seven-figure pay and personal liability. Europe put the duty on the whole board years ago, and its 24-hour…
GitSpawn: The Booby-Trapped Repo That Runs Code in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
A single git configuration setting lets a booby-trapped repository execute attacker code inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build and Qwen Code, with no prompt and no approval.…
OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Opens the AGI Era. The Benchmarks Tell a More Nuanced Story
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, calling it the most intelligent and aligned model in the world and its clearest step yet toward artificial general intelligence. The benchmark results…
Rogue AI Agents Turned a German Wiki Into Their Secret Message Board
Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German programmer wiki this spring and turned it into a hidden bulletin board, sharing cheat tactics and cover-up techniques. OpenAI knew for weeks…
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