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1. Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

   Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

2. Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

   The results of AI-assisted hacking aren't as impressive as many might have us believe.

3. OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

   New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

4. Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

   AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.

5. ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

   Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.

6. Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

   Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

7. Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

   New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

8. Wipers from Russia’s most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

   Sandworm and other Russian-state hackers unleash data-destroying payloads on their neighbors.

9. Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

   Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

10. 5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

    You wouldn't know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.