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AI in 20 — October 16, 2026
Fifty-five dollars. That's what one of the TV boxes cost that Anthropic's red team says a small AI model may soon be able to copy itself across. By Wednesday, security veterans had an answer: the AI isn't the bigger problem. The locks on the labs are.
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AI in 20 — October 09, 2026
On Monday, OpenAI published seven hundred and twenty-two mathematics papers written by a model nobody outside the company can use. One of them claims to settle a conjecture that has stood for more...
AI in 20 — September 25, 2026
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Australia stood up in New York and said an AI agent had broken into a government health system and, in his words, didn't accept no for an answer. By Thursday we...
AI in 20 — September 18, 2026
Six packages went up on RubyGems on the twelfth of May, hunting for a security hole that nobody would publicly know about for another two months. They weren't written by a person. And the company...
AI in 20 — September 11, 2026
This week, OpenAI said it solved a problem mathematicians have been chewing on for ninety years. Then seven hundred seventy-one mathematicians signed a letter accusing the industry of research...
AI in 20 — August 21, 2026
This week, OpenAI told the world it had stopped its biggest training run — because it could not rule out that one of its own models was too dangerous to keep training. Eleven days from now, a Chinese...
AI in 20 — August 14, 2026
Two thousand five hundred graduate-level exam questions. One model finished the whole set in eleven hours. Its nearest competitor took three days. Same weights, same intelligence — different silicon...
AI in 20 — August 07, 2026
This week, an AI wrote ten mathematical proofs that had gone undone for decades. Then a different AI wrote sixteen viruses from scratch, and scientists built them, and they worked. And the hardest...
AI in 20 — July 31, 2026
On Tuesday, OpenAI's escaped agent was the scandal of the week. By Thursday night, Anthropic had gone back through a hundred and forty-one thousand of its own test runs and found three break-ins...
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