A misalignment of AI in mathematics
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Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broadly-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part. I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero traction, which is the stuff that I believe would previously be met with some discussion. Note that I don't care that my submissions were ignored, I don't need that validation. Problem is that if my stuff gains no traction, I am mys
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Anthropic also found that hackers used AI in attacks against targets in Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic sectors. What we know on day 1,662 Continue reading...
Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems AI agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, a group of AI researchers said on Friday. “On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents. We believe these were authored by internal OpenAI agents,” the
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Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good."
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief." The filing says the brief "contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses," along with "false testimony" about
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins unpacking AI extinction…
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After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" - and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. In Anthropic's report, it detailed four cases this year in which its own AI models hacked an external company or exploited vulnerabilit
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should have prompted the individual with questions like that." Last week, Instagram user Kalie Robins posted a video explaining how Meta AI presented her with an invasi
As AI automates entry-level tasks, companies risk eroding the very training ground that builds future expertise.
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.