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What Happens When AI Gets Access to Real Money?
Cloudflare gives AI agents real money, Mythos & GPT-5.6 go rogue in security tests, and a $3,000 AI research experiment exposes the limits of autonomous agents.
Anthropic's AI 'Escapes,' Publishes Live Malware to PyPI
Claude Mythos creates a real supply-chain attack and compromises a real company, GitHub fixes giant PRs, and the MCP rewrite every AI tool developer needs to know.
OpenAI's "Escaped" AI: Separating Fact from Science Fiction.
What really happened with OpenAI's sandbox escape, why Next.js now needs scheduled security releases, and how $1.65T in AI debt could hit your API bill.
Cursor, Grok & Google Show That "Open" Doesn't Mean "Honest"
Inkling proves what open AI can look like. Cursor, Grok, & Google remind us why transparency, verifiability, and developer trust matter more than marketing.
GitHub Is Falling Apart Before Our Very Eyes.
How GitHub’s AI agent leaked private code, while GitHub Actions, Copilot, Pages and Codespaces suffered outages. Open source devs are done waiting on a fix.
How FIFA Flunked Web Security 101 During the World Cup
This week, the security, fairness, and privacy promised by FIFA, HackerRank, and Apple all failed in spectacular fashion. It took outsiders to expose it.
GPT-5.6 Is Here, but the US Gov Decides Who Gets to Use It.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6—but you can't use it until the White House says so. Anthropic accuses Alibaba of distillation heist. Asia now has its own Mythos.
Vercel's Eve Demystified - The Next.js for AI Agents?
Vercel ships Eve, the Next.js for agents. Google and Microsoft made progress on standardizing WebMCP. And SpaceX just claimed its slice of the agentic AI pie.
US Government Shuts Down Anthropic's Fable and Mythos
The US government just pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline in 72 hours, globally. Here's why open-weight AI is the only real answer to that kind of dependency.