Adam Kues Spent $25. GPT-5.6 Found a $500k WordPress RCE.
OpenAI's system card said GPT-5.6 couldn't autonomously exploit production targets. Then it found wp2shell.
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Japan Spent $6 Billion on Sovereign AI. The GPUs Are All American.
Japan committed ¥1 trillion to build a national AI factory on 27,500 Nvidia Rubin GPUs. It's the most honest version of sovereign AI yet — and the clearest proof that 'sovereign' has never meant what it sounds like.
ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS
We built a co-op arena shooter on a 28-meter planet: about 160 KB of gzipped JavaScript, no game engine, endless waves, squads of four. It runs off the same server that serves this page. How it works, and why a studio that builds AI-native systems ships a game at all.
Hollywood Invested in OpenAI. Now It Can’t Distribute a Film About It.
Luca Guadagnino's $40M film about the 2023 OpenAI coup passed through Amazon, A24, Netflix, Focus, and Mubi — and nearly every studio that touched it has OpenAI money.
Kimi K3 Closed the Coding Gap. The Hallucination Rate Is 51%.
The first open 3T-class model leads Program Bench and competes with GPT-5.6 Sol on coding. Artificial Analysis found a 51% hallucination rate. Architecture explains both.
Bonsai 27B Fits in 4 GB. Post-Training Quantization Never Could.
PrismML's 27B model runs on an iPhone at 11 tokens per second. The benchmark breakdown shows where the 10% loss lands — and why that distribution matters more than the headline.
Codex Encrypted Its Sub-Agent Tasks. Only OpenAI Has the Key.
OpenAI's multi-agent system encrypts every task sent between agents. Operators see empty strings. OpenAI's servers hold the keys. The fix exists and isn't merged.
Anthropic Rewrote Bun in 11 Days. 13,365 Unsafe Blocks Came With It.
Bun's AI migration from Zig to Rust passed every test on six platforms. The official unsafe audit found 181× more unsafe density than comparable Rust projects and five functions with live bugs.
Illinois Mandated AI Audits. Labs Got the Burden Without the Shield.
Governor Pritzker signed the first mandatory annual frontier model audit law on July 6. The liability protection OpenAI lobbied for in parallel never came.