I’m at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I’ll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me …

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It’s …

Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling “System One models” (I’m with Maggie Appleton, I think “decision models” …

Alt: Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile

This is a scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the 1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It was created by Michael Lantieri, the US special effects supervisor, and his crew. It's his most complex shot...

Here’s a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that …

Bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week. …

View Blender .blend files directly in your browser by pasting a URL to a CORS-accessible file or GitHub repository link. The viewer renders mesh geometry with materials, lighting, and optional …

Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by …

Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps—sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and …

View and visualize GeoJSON data on an interactive OpenStreetMap with customizable styling options. Paste GeoJSON objects (Feature, FeatureCollection, or Geometry) into the editor, adjust fill color an...

It’s the final 3.15 release candidate! This is a candidate preview of Python 3.15 This release, 3.15.0rc2, is the final planned candidate release, containing around 144 bugfixes, build improvement...

Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information...

"It turns out having an established blog gives you a surprising amount of influence in a field"

4 posts tagged ‘accidental-cyberattacks’. Incidents in which an AI lab was testing the cyberattack potential of a model and it inadvertently performed a real attack against another organization.