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This pope tweet is 100% human-written, according to Pangram.
I fixed the typo. Now it’s 100% AI-generated.
See how hard it is to flip an AI detector -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/4y3Y7G4
The part that kills me most is they have far more nuanced information available — of course they’re not 100% sure. But you can only see that info by clicking through the details on desktop or through the API.
The detection itself is very good in many contexts. But the UI …
We finally did it. We made a quiz spanning 25 years of captchas. https://wapo.st/4q1PHw0
This is a must-read. Such important reporting, told so well. 🎁 https://wapo.st/3RoU0Vu
How long did OpenAI’s hacking agent run rogue before the company noticed? We mapped out what we know.
Beware: You’ll have to scroll a while.
Dig in, folks
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Two thoughts on the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack:
- If OpenAI cannot secure their models, maybe they should not be building them
- This hacking technology exists in AI labs, and to a growing extent outside them too. This is now our reality.
OpenAI says its model hacked out of its sandbox, then hacked HuggingFace to find answers to an eval: OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
HuggingFace previously wrote about it here: Security incident disclosure — July 2026
Why did OpenAI not sufficiently secure its training environment? Weird humble-brag vibe going on. I hope we get more details on the exploits soon.
The AI 2027 folks are back, this time arguing for an international deal to slow down AI development https://ai-2040.com/
Anthropic says its weakest model, many of OpenAI’s and at least one Chinese open-weight model can all find the vulns and exploit that prompted the U.S. to effectively ban it. https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5
Pretty crazy how quickly the Trump admin reversed itself on AI https://wapo.st/4xS9cui