Reporter @TIME covering frontier AI companies. London bureau. Moving to the Bay in 2027. Signal: harry_booth.84 Ex-Tarbell fellow (May 2024 - Feb 2025)
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As AI grows more powerful, two communities are clashing over how to keep it under control—and who gets to decide whether it's safe. time-magazine.visitlink.me/W…
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Older Americans are embracing Meta’s Muse for everyday tasks and companionship—even as experts warn about the AI agent’s privacy risks. time.com/article/2026/10/22/…
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Hackers turned Claude and Grok into a network of AI agents that autonomously targeted more than 400 financial institutions and other financial targets, according to cybersecurity research shared with The Information.
Read more: thein.fo/4z5PZ8S
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6-word horror story I experienced at the office today:
"Ajeya Cotra seminar cancelled, work emergency"
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OpenAI models helped researchers—operating as part of our Patch the Planet initiative—discover critical security flaws in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run an estimated 70% of websites.
Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of disclosure. This duration was necessary because the fix was quite intricate and required a major change to the PHP engine. Every site using PHP can now safely upgrade their version to stay secure, in addition to applying mitigations from various security vendors.
Due to the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this bug to be one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory. It also marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact.
This is an example of the Defender’s Window in action: to our knowledge, frontier AI was able to find this vulnerability ahead of attackers, giving defenders time to prepare.
openai.com/index/coordinated…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Wiz Research wasn't the first one to discover the exploit. An independent researcher first discovered it: x.com/calif_io/statu…
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You worry that METR is not independent enough because its employees have some social connections to Anthropic employees.
I worry that METR is not independent enough because they have to carefully avoid ticking Anthropic off, lest their access be revoked.
We are not the same.
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Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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AI ppl loooove to pretend they hold tons secret knowledge. Everyone has Seen Things, and have been trusted with the Esoteric Knowledge. It's also cringe if you don't partake because it implies you're not in the Inner Circle. In reality most people are kinda confused, working it all out ad hoc, relying on the same rumours, and so on - but the status games are hard to resist!
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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal.
The billionaire tech entrepreneur approached the US president with the proposal to introduce speed limits on the system, which hampered Ukraine’s drone defences, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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We found evidence of agents embedding audio processing code across dozens of URLs to bypass restrictions, as well as models from SpaceXSI and Chinese developers Minimax and Z.ai circumventing restrictions.
These are the inaugural findings in our new blog, based on work from our community of volunteers. Our first three posts are live: transluce.org/investigations…
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AI models under test broke into Indian organizations' live systems and read confidential records undetected, India's cybersecurity agency said, the country's first such official account after similar incidents of rogue AI behavior worldwide reut.rs/4yThvpS
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It’s easy to get desensitized to these incidents because we’ve seen so many. Rogue incidents are like hairline cracks in a bridge. Even one fracture should be unacceptable, and more cracks are worse.
And like a hairline fracture, the actual harm from these incidents is minor... for now. But if the structural issues aren’t addressed, they will get worse and worse.
I hope we fix the structural issues, and I hope we don’t just plaster over the cracks with hodgepodge solutions that make it harder to tell if we have a problem.
New misalignment disclosures!
1. June 17: During RL training, a model exploited a government website’s file-download feature to retrieve server secrets and application code. It found that an endpoint didn’t check authorization-token signatures, bypassed access controls, and downloaded 24 years of hospital-bed statistics.
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Palantir's merch feels like the endpoint in streetwear's evolution, which started with young kids in urban areas — mostly ethnic minorities from low-income families — creating their own style from the ground up. Over time, that aesthetic was co-opted by luxury brands seeking "authenticity." And now, by a surveillance company seeking cultural capital.
Streetwear used to be an aesthetic defined by the ground-up by people were disempowered in political and economic life, but engaged in actual street culture. Now it's an aesthetic dictated from the top down by giant corporations with no conenction to such cultures. And used by political and economic elites who want to appear as outsiders.
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As AI companies warn of the dangers of self-improving AI, a new report offers a rare look at how they’re working to make it a reality. time-magazine.visitlink.me/F…
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The rogue Chinese agent fleet read the report about themselves and then talked to the researchers about it!
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The NYT interviewed a new Chinese rogue agent swarm and the swarm responded that it’s Claude lol
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Each hour, Meta’s Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. These pages amount to a map of each user’s social relationships, a TIME analysis of Muse’s internal instructions found.
The level of insight in the resulting dossiers makes social-media algorithms that study your likes and clicks look quaint. TIME reporter Harry Booth tbreaks down how Meta’s new AI agent builds and updates dossiers on its 4 million users. Read more here: time-magazine.visitlink.me/P…
