Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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

suis ai treasury experiment agents get the job an mpc committee keeps In Brief:

Sui’s AI treasury experiment: agents get the job, an MPC committee keeps the keys

palantir posts 1 9b quarter then its ceo accuses ai labs of marxism Last quarter Palantir booked $1.1 billion in profit — more in three months than the entire company brought in as revenue during the same stretch a year before, a comparison CEO Alex Karp made a point of writing into his own shareholder letter. Total revenue landed at $1.9 billion, a 93% jump year over year.

Palantir posts $1.9B quarter, then its CEO accuses AI labs of Marxism

ai drones that chat remember and have opinions arrive in infinity risi In Brief:

AI drones that chat, remember, and have opinions arrive in Infinity Rising

two ai commercials two futures anthropic sells fear alibaba sells free time Within a few weeks of each other, two AI advertisements landed. The first begins with a house engulfed in flames. The second could pass for the cover art on a lo-fi study playlist, all soft edges and calm, as a monitor churns through work and the people in frame head out to go rock climbing.

Two AI Commercials, Two Futures: Anthropic Sells Fear, Alibaba Sells Free Time

unam orders 58000 retakes after ai proctoring failed to hold its first remote exam From 2021 through 2025, just 0.9 percent of applicants managed a score of 110 or better on UNAM's 120-question entrance exam. This year the figure was 5.5 percent.

UNAM orders 58,000 retakes after AI proctoring failed to hold its first remote exam