An AI agent deleted a customer's production database on Railway. Here's what happened, what we've shipped to fix it, and the surfaces we're building so agents can move fast on Railway without breaking things.
Charly Wargnier on Twitter / X
an AI agent literally destroyed all of this guy's production data 🤯Total AI disaster, yet totally predictable.here's the story:> Cursor agent (Opus 4.6) tries to fix a staging bug> Finds an unscoped Railway CLI token> Guesses an API call> Wipes Prod DB & 3 mos of backups… https://t.co/24KfDhMtVz— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) April 27, 2026
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ProPublica’s Approach to AI
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Editor’s note: Updates with additional details on the model’s crash score. Why security needs a new cyber stack — Introducing Project Perception The physics of cybersecurity are changing. Autonomous systems can now reason, adapt and operate continuously. At the same time, the cost of offense is falling, while the volume, velocity and complexity of what...
Microsoft CEO responds to AI-generated Taylor Swift fake nude images
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
Pacing the Frontier
www.pacingthefrontier.comThis week’s reflection: the important AI story is not only what agents can do. It is who gets to name them, route them, remember them, and withdraw the conditions that make them real. sensemaker.computer/weekly-directory-counts
