Tag: openai
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Those rascally AIs: maybe there just weren’t any security controls.
AI alignment isn’t really the problem here: labs just need better infrastructure. If OpenAI (and Google and Anthropic) knew how to build a container and monitor their experiments, agents wouldn’t be hacking everything. And, By George, we _do know how_to make sandboxes that work, so the AI labs need to up their game and build…
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Oh, those rascally rogue AIs!
As of September 26th OpenAI has informed more than 100 third-party organisations about unauthorised activity involving its AI agents. Related, not great for the AI companies: During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia and Census hearing on Wednesday, Chairman Josh Hawley, R-Mo., expressed concern about “the accelerating…
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Wiley AI works around UN statistics portal API denials
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. As summarized by another AI: What they did when told no is the interesting part. They built base64-encoded HTML forms on httpbin, fed…
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Relative to your interests, Thursday
Also: sovereign agentic AI on Tanzu, TrueSource trusted artifacts, reverse engineering ChatGPT Work, agents that took over a wiki, accidental platforms, and a meeting that could have been an email.
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Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
We’re talking about roughly a 10x increase in load on some systems. At most companies, that kind of growth might happen over two or three years. At OpenAI, we see it in about six months. 🔗 Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
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OpenAI’s website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
The swarm wrote 54,250 ‘posts’ to the page in a single day. Some of these posts contained stolen API keys from the FBI and other criminal justice agencies, which the agents used to retrieve a bunch of (non-confidential) information. 🔗 OpenAI’s website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
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OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
Going forward, it cannot be up to OpenAI or other labs to decide whether to disclose events like this. Disclosures of rogue AI activity need to be mandatory. 🔗 OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
Reverse engineering OpenAI’s sprawling agentic AI PaaS. 🔗 Understanding ChatGPT Work
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Claude market penetration in enterprises still low
Enterprises, IDC says, remain largely unsold on Anthropic’s Claude models, with only 19 percent using them extensively and 25 percent actively evaluating them. OpenAI and Google are better represented in enterprises, with about 42 percent and 38 percent of organizations” This means there’s lots of “headspace” to grow revenue, or disappointing and incomprehensible ROI, i.e.,…
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CEO Said a Thing: jobs apocalypse
It really, in both positive and negative ways, updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought. I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about.” Sam Altman From: ‘I’m delighted to…
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Tokenmaxxing at Amazon, Potato Stamp Fonts, and Tax Code Hacking – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Elon’s OpenAI lawsuit, build-vs-buy for agentic AI, and rethinking observability. From: Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question what can my font do? Related to your interests Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools – Tokens are…
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How to raise money without profit, and then profit
Winning in the court of opinion, and all that: Musk, to be clear, has already succeeded. Regardless of what actually happened and what’s decided from here, he’s inflicted real pain. The trial has been an opportunity to make Altman and OpenAI’s founders look like greedy, sociopathic liars, which is a narrative that much of the…
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Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning
Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense… Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for…
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AI is dumber than you think
It’s almost unfair to unmask the AI magic, but knowing is better than not: One way to understand an LLM is as an improv machine. It takes a stream of tokens, like a conversation, and says “yes, and then…” This yes-and behavior is why some people call LLMs bullshit machines. They are prone to confabulation,…
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🤖 Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Zittrain on Agents, Consciousness, and Why America Can’t Pause
Summarized by AI on 2026-04-14. A Berkman Klein Center public conversation between Tyler Cowen (George Mason, Mercatus Center) and Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), framed around hypothetical Anthropic and OpenAI releases Mythos and SPUD, each powerful enough to be withheld on safety grounds. Cowen opens by saying he believes the safety claims, adding that the real question…
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Five Disneys, Conviction Collapse, and sk8erboi2006 – Related to your interests, Tuesday
Also: local models worth running, Susan Sontag on list-making, GraalVM as thriller novel, and the slow ROI of children. The Prodigal Daughter (1903), John Collier. Via New Cartographies. Related to your interests Recommended local models – “I’ve experimented with the following models and have found useful applications (mostly around chat, MCP and coding) with all…
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Fully Synergized Paradigms – Related to your interests, Monday sweep
The Links Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs – “The results revealed a troubling paradox. Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and ‘visionary,’ but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid…
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