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Security2026-06-12 · source-backed
Per Forbes, a hacker known for breaking into Teslas is building a startup around a $100M autonomous cyber agent. It's part of a growing wave of well-funded agentic security companies pitching offensive and defensive automation. The dual-use problem here is sharp: an agent good enough to find your vulnerabilities is an agent good enough to find them for someone else. The arms race just got a nine-figure entrant.
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Electrek reported on a NHTSA filing for a July 6, 2025 crash in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, where a 2019 Model 3 ran a stop sign at a logged pre-crash speed of 4 mph and struck a Honda Civic turning left, killing 82-year-old Stephen Field. Tesla's report confirms driver-...
The person who coined "vibe coding" and co-founded OpenAI just chose Anthropic. TechCrunch confirmed on May 19 that Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team, where he'll start a new group using Claude to accelerate pre-training research under team lead Nick Jos...
On Fox News, Bessent was asked whether he agreed with Elon Musk's prediction and answered "I do, but I think I would change the timeline," citing that a quarter of jobs existing in 2026 didn't exist in 2000. When Business Insider surveyed seven personal finance and AI experts...
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Amodei's leaked memo called OpenAI's Pentagon deal "straight up lies" and "safety theater," described employees as "gullible." Apologized for tone but confirmed Anthropic received a supply chain risk designation and plans to sue. Altman acknowledged the deal looked "opportunis...
swyx's synthesis of the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 is the clearest framing I've read of where this all goes. The discipline moved from building agents to engineering the harness around them. Lilian Weng (now at Thinking Machines Lab) reframed her whole practice as "harness...
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