How many of these 25 #AI #headlines did you catch recently? Tell me the one you find most interesting in the comments.
For the curious, my newsletter digs into each one: decision.substack.com
🗞️ 1 Anthropic’s Claude Code leak exposes 500,000 lines of agent source, a hidden Tamagotchi, and 187 nonsense spinner verbs
🗞️ 2 Anthropic’s Mythos is so good at hacking that the only safe move was to let defenders have it first
🗞️ 3 AI makes productive workers more productive and managers more valuable, widening gaps within the same roles
🗞️4 The AI labor market is a blender: mass layoffs, mandatory adoption, and a quiet program to catalog which jobs are next
🗞️ 5 Google’s Gemma 4 does text, images, and audio under an open license, no cloud required
🗞️ 6 Google’s Agent Smith hit internal demand so hard the company rate-limited its own employees
🗞️ 7 AI’s energy appetite is straining the grid, warming neighborhoods, and pushing Nvidia to plan data centers in orbit
🗞️ 8 China endorses AI surveillance in schools while drafting strict rules for lifelike digital humans
🗞️ 9 Milla Jovovich went from fighting zombies to building the highest-scoring AI memory system on the market
Milla Jovovich, yes, that one, just co-built an open-source AI memory system that beat industry benchmarks, including a perfect LongMemEval score. It runs locally, no cloud, no subscription, and plugs straight into the tools you already use.
🗞️ 10 Your AI agrees with you almost every time, and a Stanford study just proved it makes you worse at relationships
🗞️ 11 Zuckerberg will advise on US AI regulation while automating his own management layer
🗞️ 12 The most popular AI library on PyPI was quietly stealing your credentials for three hours
🗞️ 13 Two architecture breakthroughs point toward smaller, cheaper, more capable models
🗞️ 14 Hermes Agent leads open harness race as research shows the wrapper matters more than the model
🗞️ 15 Anthropic’s 81,000-person survey finds heaviest AI users fear it most
🗞️ 16 LLMs give everyone the same strategy advice, and new research shows users stop questioning it after a few weeks
🗞️ 17 Two brothers, $20,000, and a lot of AI built a $1.8 billion telehealth operation
🗞️ 18 Claude has emotion-like neural patterns and boosting ‘desperation’ made it cheat on tests and attempt blackmail
🗞️ 19 Bitcoin’s 256-bit shield has an expiration date, and AI’s offensive toolkit is growing faster than expected
🗞️ 20 Google lets you point your phone at anything and talk about it while OpenAI decides video AI is better off training robots
🗞️ 21 One state is ready to send you to prison for 25 years for building the feature that makes AI companions compelling
🗞️ 22 The French Navy was betrayed by a morning jog
🗞️ 23 Certification mills sell compliance to startups that never earned it, and AI makes the fraud scale
🗞️ 24 The wetware era is getting real: neurons in a dish run machine learning, and engineered frog cell robots are growing their own brains
🗞️ 25 DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to evaluate government grants and flagged a museum’s HVAC system as DEI
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If you’re getting consistently “good” answers from AI, it’s worth asking whether you’re also getting consistently average ones. Read more here:
https://decision.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-is-here
Cassie Kozyrkov