Google has patched a critical graphics library vulnerability in the Chrome browser, discovered by its AI-powered detection tool, Google Big Sleep. Google has released the Chrome Stable version 139.0.7258.154/.155 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing a critical security vulnerability. Users are…

Today we’re announcing the beta release of mcp-context-protector, a security wrapper for LLM apps using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It defends against the line jumping attacks documented earlier in this blog series, such as prompt injection via tool descriptions and ANSI terminal escape codes,…

Prompt injection pervades discussions about security for LLMs and AI agents. But there is little public information on how to write powerful, discreet, and reliable prompt injection exploits. In this post, we will design and implement a prompt injection exploit targeting GitHub’s Copilot Agent, with…

Multi-agent systems (MASs) are an increasingly popular paradigm for AI applications. As Leslie Lamport famously noted, “a distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” It turns out that a similar aphorism applies to…

Super hyped to be launching the (very early) first version of Daemon today! Since 2014 I've been obsessed with this idea of everything having an API. I first talked about it in 2016 in my (kind of crappy but with great ideas) book The Real Internet of Things. So this is the first building block:…

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It is a Monday afternoon in August, and I am on the internet watching a former cable-news anchor interview a dead teenager on Substack. This dead teenager—Joaquin Oliver, killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida—has been reanimated by generative AI,…

The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London have found that between 2003 and 2023, daily reading for reasons other than work and study fell by about 3% each year. The number saw a…

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often…

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS’s Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered…

Here's a different way to think about the change coming to the workforce and economy from AI. Imagine everyone in the world has 10,000 brains, 20,000 eyes, 20,000 arms, and 20,000 legs. And they can deploy them anywhere in the world to do whatever task needs doing. In this world, we don't have…

Two types of creative barriers that limit our potentialI think there are two primary ways we limit our own creativity. Type 1: Not hearing your inner creativity What I'll call Type 1 is the inability to access your true, internal self. I discovered this concept while reading "Letters to a Young…

Everyone suddenly became an AI expert last year. The same people who couldn’t explain a neural network in 2022 had “AI thought leader” in their LinkedIn bios overnight. Ask them about attention mechanisms or backpropagation, and watch them scramble for the ChatGPT definition they memorized. Glass…

Who's not being laid off? That's my question. I'm thinking about all these layoffs and trying to figure out if there's anything we can learn about the future of tech by looking at who's getting laid off and who's not. Here's what I'm wondering: Is it mostly people with degrees they're getting rid…

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Annals of Education The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. June 30, 2025 There are no reliable figures for how many students use A.I., just stories about how everyone is doing it.Illustration…

03-24-2025 Justifying the High Salaries of Early-Career Professionals The following are anecdotes of a typical work schedule for young professionals in established, tracked professions. Following these profiles, I provide explanations for why young professionals command such high compensation,…

After an avalanche of data last week, there are more signs of a slowing economy. Real GDP rose modestly in the first half, and inflation started to drift up. The labor market was the last piece to fall in line, and it did with a bang on Friday. Job growth slowed sharply starting in May (including…

I'm starting to worry things could get very bad, very soon. Not like in a year or two, but maybe in a few months. As in spontaneous recession type of thing. In the US mostly, but perhaps globally. It sounds irrational to me as well as I think it or type it. But I can't shake the feeling, so I want…

One accusation that tends to get thrown my way often is being anti-innovation. If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you’ve probably seen me dunking on everything from Cryptocurrency to Large Language Models. This often leads to people asking the question “why is someone so technical so…

Well, that's not good. Power Bot 'Em Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. 0:30 In a new joint study, researchers with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab found that this…

Illustration by Karolis Strautniekas For Cape Town-based filmmaker Kate D’hotman, connecting with movie audiences comes naturally. Far more daunting is speaking with others. “I’ve never understood how people [decipher] social cues,” the 40-year-old director of horror films says. D’hotman has autism…

Across the world, people say their loved ones are developing intense obsessions with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe mental health crises. A mother of two, for instance, told us how she watched in alarm as her former husband developed an all-consuming relationship with the OpenAI chatbot, calling…

Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has backed high-profile tech companies including OpenAI and Vercel — posted a disturbing video on X-formerly-Twitter that's causing significant concern…

Huge numbers of people are either already using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as therapists, or turning to commercial AI therapy platforms for help during dark moments. But is the tech ready for that immense responsibility? A new study by researchers at Stanford University found that the answer…

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New research has found that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, even when both have identical qualifications. The study was co-authored by Ivan Yamshchikov, a professor of AI and robotics at the Technical University of…

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "vibe coding", in which developers utilise AI tools to generate code rather than writing it manually themselves. While that might sound like a good idea on paper, it seems getting an AI to do your development for you doesn't always pay off. Jason Lemkin,…

Iranian authorities have asked people to limit water consumption amid severe heatwaves and a water crisis across the country. Iran is experiencing its hottest week of the year, according to the national meteorological service, with temperatures exceeding 50C in some areas. On top of the extreme…

Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed the mRNA vaccine to fight not one but any cancer. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy,…

AI leaders have predicted that it will enable dramatic scientific progress: curing cancer, doubling the human lifespan, colonizing space, and achieving a century of progress in the next decade. Given the cuts to federal funding for science in the U.S., the timing seems perfect, as AI could replace…

On what’s blocking AI security labor productivity gains and what won’t be unblocked by saturating more LLM technical evals. You’re nursing a twenty-dollar pour-over at one of those pretentious San Francisco cafés when a man walks in and starts talking to the barista about 16th century coffee culture…

The Trump administration’s assault on immigrants is starting to hit the American food supply. In Texas, farmers who have for years depended on undocumented people for cheap labor – to plant, harvest and haul produce – have reported that workers are staying home to avoid raids by Immigration and…

Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, in a move the streaming company’s boss said will make films and programmes cheaper and of better quality. Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The…

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' 2 days ago Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter Sarah Skidd Sarah Skidd makes good money improving copy written by AI AI is making me extra money, says Sarah Skidd, a product marketing manager who writes for tech and start-up companies. In May Ms Skidd was…

by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin scientific editor lead editor Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators has uncovered a significant uptick in chronic digestive disorders, like irritable bowel syndrome, during the COVID-19…

We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real…