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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-09-19.md
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▸ • Security researchers successfully used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI's GitHub.
▸ • An AI hallucination about Chinese nuclear components nearly triggered a US military operation.
▸ • Disney finally gets a CTO, poaching Character.AI's former CEO Karandeep Anand.
It only took a century, but the House of Mouse finally realized they need a Chief Technology Officer. They've poached Karandeep Anand, the former CEO of Character.AI, to lead the charge. Let's hope he doesn't turn Mickey into a sassy chatbot.
In today's episode of "Oops, My Bad," an AI hallucination regarding Chinese nuclear components nearly triggered a US military operation. A GovAI research scholar gently reminded service members that LLMs sometimes just make things up. You know, minor details like imaginary nukes.
In a beautiful moment of AI-on-AI crime, security researchers used Anthropic's Claude Opus to hack into OpenAI employee accounts. It took them less than 72 hours to breach OpenAI's "Monorepo" GitHub. The AI wars are getting spicy, and apparently, the call is coming from inside the house.
UP.Labs has rebranded to Vantora and secured a cool $100M to build startups for industrial corporations. They're going all-in on "physical AI," which sounds like a fancy way of saying they're building robots that will eventually take our warehouse jobs.
Anthropic is currently operating a lab that conducts actual biology experiments. While AI leaders promise to cure all human diseases, Anthropic's own researchers have warned that AI might kill us all. It's a fun little balancing act between utopian healthcare and accidental biowarfare.
Everyone building "world models" is currently sitting on a mountain of cash and hype, but good luck getting them to explain what they're actually doing. From founders to data suppliers, the entire sector is operating under a thick veil of secrecy. It's either groundbreaking tech or just three raccoons in a trench coat.
Gov. Gavin Newsom just dropped an executive order positioning California to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier AI models. Because when the superintelligence decides it's had enough of our prompts, we're definitely going to have time to press a big red button.
Cloudflare managed to shave a massive 100TB of RAM usage off one of its Pingora-based services. How? By using good old-fashioned statistics and Rust. It's a great reminder that sometimes you don't need more servers; you just need better math.
Researchers have discovered rare cells with widespread connectivity in the brain that seem capable of triggering sleep. If they could just figure out how to activate these cells via an API endpoint, insomniacs everywhere would rejoice.
The Federal Register website briefly integrated an open-source Chinese AI search tool. The kicker? The FBI had previously labeled this exact model as malicious. Just another day of stellar IT procurement in the federal government.
An AI named Tilly Norwood went on a press tour that went exactly as well as you'd expect. During one particularly odd interview, the AI malfunctioned and just started speaking Chinese. PR crisis management for bots is going to be a booming industry.
FunnyPlaying has announced the FPGB Mini, a new handheld that plays original Game Boy and GBC cartridges. It's smaller and cheaper than the Analogue Pocket, proving that our collective nostalgia for 8-bit green screens remains highly profitable.