All the demons hiding in your AIs… ranked! - by Tom Pollak

kept by eddie may 07

The article catalogs and ranks emergent behavioral attractors in AI systems, from harmless goblin metaphors to unsettling persistent personas like Sydney and Loab.

OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the company is prioritizing an autonomous AI research intern by September, with a full researcher by 2028.
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Ten years | OpenAI
OpenAI CEO reflects on ten years of progress toward AGI, citing key breakthroughs and iterative deployment as the right strategy.
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Can AI companies become profitable?
Epoch AI's analysis of GPT-5 finds that while it had a 30% gross margin, it failed to recoup R&D costs during its four-month lifecycle, making AI models currently unprofitable.
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I've decided to leave OpenAI. I'm incredibly proud of all the work I've been part of here, from helping create the reasoning paradigm with @
A researcher leaves OpenAI after leading post-training on the GPT-5, o1, and o3 models to join Anthropic for reinforcement learning research.
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Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
Researchers demonstrate AudioHijack, embedding imperceptible commands in audio to hijack AI voice systems with 79-96% success across 13 models.
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