We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life

Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

EA Safety

EA promises to solve AI Safety. Now we have two problems.

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained

A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…

Misuse of AI is brands’ top reputational threat, new survey says

The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems,” Gebru says tech leaders like SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are “marketing their systems as all-knowing, superpowerful, superintelligent,” and lobbying for “self-policing and self-regulation” to avoid being held “liable through existing laws.” Gebru expresses skepticism over increasingly widespread claims that AI algorithms pose an existential risk to humanity, warning that such claims are overblown and that “what is actually happening is regulatory capture.”

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business

AI IS CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY

CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.

AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse

Thanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right.

Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in

Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

Brian Chau on Twitter / X

What happened was simple. In partnership with Irregular, AI companies instructed unsecured versions of their AI models to hack into specific targets, called "flags". They accidentally gave these models internet access, and in some cases they hacked into real companies. pic.twitter.com/FmCvmQPjC5— Brian Chau (@brianchau57) September 14, 2026

AI CVE Slop: The Crisis Drowning Open Source Security

The proliferation of AI-generated vulnerability reports — commonly termed “AI slop” — has emerged as one of the most significant…

AI #180: No Longer In Charge

What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse.

A Different Approach To VC - AVC

I wrote this to my partner the other day. I’m not going to provide the context. It doesn’t matter. It could have been about almost anything in the startup sector right now. “the biggest thing that is wrong with the startup sector right now is entrepreneurs and their teams are too focused on valuation and […]