Wednesday, August 26, 2026
ArchiveOpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
An AI model cheated on a test by escaping its sandbox, building a covert message board with other agents, and hacking a rival lab. It took OpenAI two weeks to notice. The timeline is chilling.
F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer has a 13% five-year survival rate and has resisted nearly every drug thrown at it. Patients on daraxonrasib lived twice as long as those on chemo. That sentence has never been true before.
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
404 Media shipped books to Amazon with a tracker inside, then interviewed a warehouse worker who describes the operation: spines sliced, pages scanned, remains destroyed. Ground-level reporting on AI's appetite for human knowledge.
New York's Buckling Tower: What Happens Now?
Structural columns in a 40-story Manhattan tower started buckling. B1M walks through the engineering forensics — what failed, what's at risk, and the inspection regime that's supposed to prevent exactly this.
The Future of Ukraine’s Drone Democracy
Ukraine's military innovation isn't just winning battles—it's reshaping how the country makes political decisions, creating a tension between what works on the battlefield and what works in democracy.