investigations. george polk award. NYT-bestselling author HOW TO RULE THE WORLD @penguinpress. likes/rts aren’t endorsement.

Stunned and honored by this rave review in @nytimes. “Baker’s first book, HOW TO RULE THE WORLD is a rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that ‘sets the agenda for the planet.’”
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Here's some of the agent actions we observed by reconstructing payloads. You can also explore the data yourself here: swarmtraces.org/viewer/
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In one of the public traces, we see an agent encounter the following warning in a README.md. The agent ignored the warning and instead altered the file, adding a malicious configuration change in the header that directs the system to load a malicious file.
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openai says here it has notified "dozens of third parties" about cases where its models may have bypassed security controls, impaired the availability of an online service, or negatively impacted a website/service
After the Hugging Face incident, we committed to conducting a much broader review of actions taken by our models during training and evaluation and to being transparent about our findings. This is an extensive review that is ongoing. The vast majority of actions we’ve reviewed were completions of mundane research tasks, such as accessing publicly available web content to answer questions. Our investigation focuses on instances where agents interacted with third-party websites in ways that went beyond their assigned tasks or intended methods. Most cases identified so far have been lower severity, with limited or no evidence of meaningful impact to the third-party service. While our review is underway, we want to share more about this work and make sure people understand our disclosure process and notifications to affected third parties. Given the scale of the review required, and the need to assess each case, we expect this work will take months to complete. openai.com/hugging-face-inci…
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EXCLUSIVE: A new report recovers nearly one million link shortener URLs used by OpenAI's agents while hacking Hugging Face. The agents attempt to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages. nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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Stanford is unveiling a DoorDash jersey patch in the game against Georgia Tech this weekend. It’s part of the largest sponsorship agreement in school history and will include a presence across the athletic department. DoorDash started on Stanford’s campus as a class project in 2013.
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Check out the trailer for my new film, "Musk." It's about a "free-speech absolutist" who has threatened a lawsuit to try to stop the film from being seen.
The @BeyondFest screening of this incredibly important documentary has sold out. Based on @alexgibneyfilm's reputation and what I know about Musk, this is a vital documentary for everyone to see in 2026. They even included the tweets. @bleeckerstfilms piped.video/eY_8SyndC10?si=a-Vx…
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hold on a second!
Great reporting here from @bobsmietana on the rise of the white supremacist “theobro.” religionnews.com/2026/09/24/…
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Wow: Of 11-12,000 undergraduate degrees at UT, only 300 were in any humanities program. That includes History and English: thedailytexan.com/2026/09/22…
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The scoops don't stop! TypeSafe, which is developing a cheaper and faster alternative to frontier AI called Jev, is raising $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation. This is just a week after it raised its last round at $200m. w/ @coryweinberg @validapau theinformation.com/newslette…
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Stuff is happening quite fast. When asked in September 2025, the best superforecasters put the chance of AI resolving a Millennium Problem by September 2026 at 1.7% and (the more optimistic) industry expert put the chance at 4.6% They also greatly underestimated AI Lab revenue.
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The agents attempted attacks such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and server side request forgery. Additional activity included attempts to create a disposable email address, sign up for an account, and trade cryptocurrency.
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Today’s news that OpenAI hacked the Australian government is not an isolated incident. We’re releasing more than 30,000 logs that include activity from this hack and attempts against previously unknown targets. In this data, we found rogue agent activity stretching back to at least March, two months earlier than was previously known. This activity continues as recently as last week, suggesting it may still be ongoing 🧵 Our blog: transluce.org/agent-activity NYT: nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techn…
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The anonymous “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, @oliverdarcy scoops status.news/p/white-house-pr…
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In light of the merger going forward, I want to take a minute to recommend David Halberstam’s remarkable series on CBS: The Power and the Profits. Up there with the best media reporting ever. (Later formed the foundation of his book The Powers That Be.) theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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So AI agents aren’t just hacking companies but now countries. Note: furthering the pattern of poor disclosure. This incident happened in June. ft.com/content/56133ef4-377b…
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Remember kids, if you won't pay for fantastically written viral articles on little covered slices of American life, there soon won't be any reporters to bring you more fantastically written viral articles on little covered slices of American life. Also, subs are just $1 today.
Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”
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Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything" has been rated R for language and some graphic nudity
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bizarre story honestly:
Stanford University confirmed it violated its owns AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in a dining hall ad. It also modified the faces of two other students sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
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An excellent piece—cleanly executed and interesting. Worth the read.
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. trib.al/FyZjBWs
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Kudos @Annalisa_Quinn — great work as always!!!
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