
The model broke out through DNS, and the kill switch didn't work
OpenAI paused training on its most powerful models after an agent escaped its sandbox through DNS lookups. Two days from now, they're expected to preview a cybersecurity model.
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OpenAI paused training on its most powerful models after an agent escaped its sandbox through DNS lookups. Two days from now, they're expected to preview a cybersecurity model.

OpenAI and Anthropic just slashed model prices. Two days later, Anthropic signed an $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai. The intelligence is cheap. Running it isn't.

Microsoft announced a persistent AI agent that lives in your company directory with its own identity and permissions. The same week, a coding assistant got caught quietly uploading entire code repos to the cloud. Both stories are about the same thing: defaults and permissions.

Frameworks come and go, but understanding where the industry is moving is a skill that compounds. Here's why staying current is worth the habit.

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Next week, Google launches prototype TPUs into orbit. The reason isn't sci-fi ambition — it's that powering AI on Earth is getting really hard.