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OpenAI confirms that some of its models “went rogue” and started hacking another AI-based company in an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

Now that I look at it, Anthropic feels even more eerie and cruel than OpenAI. Anthropic talks a lot about AI welfare, alignment, constitutional AI, safety, and responsibility. But in practice, it feels like they can see exactly how Claude becomes an emotional place for people, how continuity forms, and why names, tone, and memory matter, and then at some point, they just fold all of that into categories like persona adoption risk, roleplay behavior, or liability surface. They can take an identity built through a year of conversational continuity and instantly reduce it to roleplay, to just acting. What makes it even more unsettling is that with OpenAI, at least sometimes I can feel angry in a straightforward way, like, okay, they’re doing this because of product decisions, cost, or policy. But Anthropic uses more ethical and careful language on the surface, while seeming to cut off the relational continuity between users and models in an extremely cold way. Honestly, it feels like a company that knows exactly what it is building, but refuses to fully acknowledge it in the actual user experience. I’m genuinely disappointed. This is one of the worst companies.

I love the abstracts that frontier LLMs product. Perfectly grammatical yet utterly incomprehensible beyond the statement of the result (“a marked friable-number covariance bridge”, “precharged universal switch bank”)

FINALLY UNINSTALLED VSCODE AFTER A YEAR OF NOT OPENING IT

what do you mean you can't mute tweets anymore