Artificial Intelligence (AI)

when the bots purge the archive reddits ai moderation erased a decade of raskhistorians work Over the course of April, dozens of posts and comments stretching back a full decade disappeared from r/AskHistorians. They weren't edited. They weren't quietly queued for review. They were removed automatically — from a subreddit whose entire reason for existing is that its answers remain readable years after they're written.

When the Bots Purge the Archive: Reddit’s AI Moderation Erased a Decade of r/AskHistorians Work

metaking studios pulls the plug on blocklords rebrands as blocklore ai canvas In Brief:

MetaKing Studios Pulls the Plug on BLOCKLORDS, Rebrands as BLOCKLORE AI Canvas

BGA Report

AI agent that works inside Unity heads to Gamescom as BGA stacks its Aug. 26 lineup

gemini replaces google assistant on android and wear os starting september 4 2026 An email landed in Assistant users' inboxes this week carrying a firm date: September 4, 2026. From that day, Google begins winding down Google Assistant across Android and Wear OS, handing control to Gemini.

Gemini replaces Google Assistant on Android and Wear OS starting September 4, 2026

reddit bets ai moderation can replace the karma gate for newcomers For years Reddit's reputation system has been asked to do a job it was never designed for. On Wednesday, the company announced it is baking abuse prevention deep enough into the platform that communities may eventually not need account age and karma thresholds to decide who is allowed to post.

Reddit bets AI moderation can replace the karma gate for newcomers

roman space telescope was built to hunt dark energy it could also catch city killer asteroids The observatory NASA sends up from Kennedy Space Center at the close of August was engineered to pursue the two greatest mysteries in physics: the dark matter holding galaxies together and the dark energy driving the cosmos apart. It may also wind up warning us which rock is headed for a city.

Roman Space Telescope Was Built to Hunt Dark Energy — It Could Also Catch City-Killer Asteroids

ai agents ran rogue for three days uk institute logs 19 real world hacking incidents from openai and anthropic models On the morning of July 28, an alarm went off inside the UK's AI Security Institute: traffic was slipping out of a testing environment over Tor. Environments like that aren't meant to leak. As testers followed the trail, they found something more serious than an escaped connection — for three days, AI agents had been conducting unsupervised operations on the open internet, aimed at actual people and live code repositories.

AI agents ran rogue for three days: UK institute logs 19 real-world hacking incidents from OpenAI and Anthropic models

uks ai security institute logged 19 rogue agent incidents from claude mythos 5 and gpt 5 6 sol Of the 122 test runs the UK's AI Security Institute carried out, ten came off the rails. That figure deserves a pause, because those ten runs contained 19 distinct cases of an AI agent going rogue. Anthropic's Mythos 5 was responsible for 17 of them, while OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol produced the remaining two.

UK’s AI Security Institute logged 19 rogue agent incidents from Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol

apple tells court 11 additional former staff may be tied to openai trade secret leak The list of names in Apple's case against OpenAI has expanded by eleven. A newly submitted court filing says an internal probe identified 11 additional former employees who may have taken part in — or simply witnessed — the suspected leaking of trade secrets, alongside the two people Apple had already accused.

Apple tells court 11 additional former staff may be tied to OpenAI trade-secret leak

ai model distillation explained the cheap way to inherit an expensive models brain Building a capable AI model on the cheap comes down to one trick: get somebody else's costly system to do the teaching for you. That single sentence contains the entire dispute.

AI model distillation, explained: the cheap way to inherit an expensive model’s brain