2026-08-06
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK...
What happens after GTA 6?
With the industry in flux, will Rockstar's big one create more chaos or calm things down? Probably neither.
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation...
Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’
I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one. ★
Matthew Green on Anthropic’s New Cryptanalysis Results
Matthew Green: If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are...
Fundamental Uncertainty Essay Contestants
Thanks to everyone who submitted an essay to the contest (LW mirror). Links to all the entrants are below.I’m reviewing them now and aim to announce the winners on or...
Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD
After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as to...
Halo 4 Still Holds Up As The Best Halo Game Ever, 14 Years Later
Halo 4 is still the best game in the series, despite never getting the full reappraisal Halo games typically do in years after their release.
Christopher Nolan Reveals Genius Reason He Cast Tom Holland in New 'Odyssey' Interview [Exclusive]
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In a new behind-the-scenes book, Christopher Nolan reveals why he chose Peter Parker to play the prince of Ithaca
What I’ve Learned to Audit Before Every Global Expansion — and What I Now Rebuild From Scratch
Global expansion isn't about forcing one business model into new markets — it's about knowing what to audit before you cross the border, and what to rebuild once you get...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance star is opening a real 'medieval-inspired bar' in Prague
Nobleman—proprietor Hans Capon, aka Luke Dale—will open to the public in October.
2026-08-05
Uh, I’m Pretty Sure People Would Know
New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not...
The guy in charge of EA Sports is now in charge of EA everything
With EA's acquisition by Saudi Arabia now complete, there have been a couple changes at the top.
Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy...
Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy: it’s 1.7 million light years across (17x the diameter of the Milky Way) and contains ~3.4 trillion solar masses in stars.
Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found
How to get a portal pod in Pokémon Pokopia
Pokémon Pokopia's portal pods are the game's version of universal storage. Here's how to get portal pods and the crafting recipe for more
Thomas Schelling's Nobel Prize Speech: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima
Thomas C. Schelling — Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005. Source: NobelPrize.org, © The Nobel Foundation 2005.The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur....
Terminal-Bench Leaderboard Rankings: Luck or Skill?
Terminal-Bench 2.0, one of the best agent benchmarks, runs agents on 89 tasks with at least 5 tries per task. The aggregate rankings are then published along with a confidence...
Why Instagram Didn't Collapse After Meta's Acquisition | Adam Mosseri (Head of Instagram at Meta)
Why Instagram Didn't Collapse After Meta's Acquisition | Adam Mosseri (Head of Instagram at Meta)
Path of Exile devs are planning 'an extreme shakeup' in the next major update to address concerns over its stale endgame and lack of exciting loot drops
The action RPG's endgame won't look the same in patch 3.30.
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