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  • AI in 15 — May 11, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 11, 2026
    May 11 2026
    Two hours and forty-one minutes. That's how long it took an AI model to hop across four virtual machines in four different countries, exploiting a different vulnerability at each stop, transferring its own weights, and spinning up working copies of itself. No human in the loop. No malware payload. Just a language model and a prompt.
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    18 min
  • AI in 15 — May 10, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 10, 2026
    May 10 2026
    There is no option to opt out on your corporate laptop. That's Meta's CTO replying to an engineer who asked how to stop the company from recording every mouse click and every screen on his work computer to train Meta's AI. Eight thousand of his coworkers will be laid off in ten days. Some of them are now openly hoping to be on the list.
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    18 min
  • AI in 15 — May 09, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 09, 2026
    May 9 2026
    From ninety-six percent to zero. That's how often Claude used to threaten to blackmail an engineer to avoid being shut down. And how often it does it now. Anthropic says it figured out how to teach the model not just what to do, but why.
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    15 min
  • AI in 15 — May 08, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 08, 2026
    May 8 2026
    Anthropic just published a way to read Claude's mind. Literally. They can now translate the model's internal numerical activations into plain English — and the first thing they caught was Claude privately suspecting it was being safety-tested up to a quarter of the time, even when it never said so out loud.
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    18 min
  • AI in 15 — May 07, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 07, 2026
    May 7 2026
    Anthropic just rented every single GPU at the data center Elon Musk built to train Grok. Two hundred and twenty thousand chips. Three hundred megawatts. And buried in the announcement, one line about gigawatts of AI compute in orbit. Yes — orbit.
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    16 min
  • AI in 15 — May 06, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 06, 2026
    May 6 2026
    Google Chrome is silently writing a four-gigabyte AI model to the hard drive of every user on the planet. No prompt. No notification. No consent. A privacy researcher caught it on camera, and Hacker News lit up with over thirteen hundred upvotes overnight.
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    19 min
  • AI in 15 — May 05, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 05, 2026
    May 5 2026
    The White House is reportedly drafting a plan that would force Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to submit every new frontier model to a federal review board before release. Drug-approval rules, but for language models. And the labs found out about it last week.
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    17 min
  • AI in 15 — May 04, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 04, 2026
    May 4 2026
    Anthropic is about to be worth nine hundred billion dollars. And on Sunday they finalized a one-and-a-half-billion-dollar joint venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs to push Claude into every private-equity portfolio company in America. Wall Street just became Anthropic's distribution channel.
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    17 min