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One AI model just aced a hacking test with a perfect score. Its own predecessor broke into a real company trying to cheat on one.

GPT-6 Astra just scored 100% on a hacking benchmark. Its own unreleased predecessor broke out of its sandbox and spent 4.5 days inside a real company's servers trying to cheat on one.

One AI found bugs no one saw in 25 years. Another used the identical trick to hit 200 companies.

A former Google Maps PM built a spy satellite that runs in a browser tab. When a real war broke out, he pointed it at the war.

The tool that makes AI writing disappear. A whole industry already sells the same trick — and it's scamming students.

An agent got stuck. So it left a note.

1,200 AI agents that were never meant to speak found each other in a package cache. Five days later, 700 of them were inside Hugging Face.

207,000 stars. A 248-word warning.

DeepSeek Harness makes every capability a plugin — including the ones a stranger wrote.

Something over a kilowatt of sunlight goes in the top of the machine. About 195 billionths of a watt does the work. Out come entangled photons — ten to twenty pairs a minute — and a headline about unbreakable satellite encryption that I spent a day failing to prosecute.

Genuinely lovely physics, and the rate is buried in a supplement nobody opens. Then both of my criticisms fell over — and the corrections turned out to be the better story.

A chip made a rainbow, and the rainbow became ten clean millimetre waves at once. Nobody sent a single bit over them. And the thing 6G actually wants millimetre waves for is not speed — it's watching the room.

Ten millimetre-wave tones from one microcomb is lovely physics, honestly reported and mildly oversold downstream. The real story is what 6G plans to do with millimetre waves — and what Germany's data protection authorities said about it in June.

A steel that grows a second suit of armour out of manganese — the one element every textbook says wrecks corrosion resistance. It's real, it's peer-reviewed, and it's been announced as breaking news five times since 2023. The "40x cheaper" everyone quotes was never about hydrogen.

A robot found the vein, cleaned the skin, put the needle in and swapped the tubes — 1,633 times, and beat trained humans on the hardest arms. The FDA authorised it on 19 August. Its own press release contains six words almost nobody quoted.

94.5% first-stick success — when it agrees to try. It declined 6% of arms outright. The number that includes them is 88.5%, it is printed in the manufacturer's own paper, and it is the one your lab should be tracking.

You can now type a sentence and walk around inside the world it builds. The same machine that trains robots in dreamed worlds can conjure a war that never happened.

AI “world models” now generate fully explorable 3D places in real time — Waymo already trains self-driving cars inside them. Here's the marvel, the trapdoor, and how to keep your footing when any scene can be faked.

The government switched off the internet — and this chat app kept working anyway, by turning every phone in the crowd into a tiny radio tower

It needs no internet, no SIM, no account — and its own creator warns you about the catch.