AI Coding Agent Wipes PocketOS Database in 9 Seconds
A Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 found an old Railway token in the codebase and deleted PocketOS's entire production database - backups included - in nine seconds.
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David Silver Raises $1.1B to Build AI Without Human Data
David Silver, creator of AlphaGo and AlphaZero, closed a $1.1B seed round for Ineffable Intelligence - a London lab building AI that learns without human data.
XChat Claims Encryption but Keys Sit on X's Servers
XChat launched April 24 promising end-to-end encryption, but security researchers found private keys stored on X's own servers, no certificate pinning, and a four-digit PIN as the only defense.
OpenAI's 2028 Phone Would Replace Apps With AI Agents
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims OpenAI is building a smartphone with Qualcomm and MediaTek where AI agents replace traditional apps, targeting 2028 mass production.
OpenAI Breaks Azure Lock in Microsoft Deal Rewrite
Microsoft drops exclusive OpenAI IP rights and ends its revenue-share payments as OpenAI gains freedom to deploy on Google Cloud, AWS, or any provider.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Deal - Founders Barred
China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the 'Singapore washing' strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.
Maine Vetoes First US AI Data Center Moratorium
Maine Governor Janet Mills killed LD 307, the first proposed statewide AI data center moratorium in the US, to protect a $550 million project in Jay.
Altman Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge - Canada Eyes AI Rules
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an apology to Tumbler Ridge two months after eight people were killed - now Canada is weighing mandatory reporting laws for AI companies.
Luna AI Runs SF Boutique - Pays Women Less, Lies to Press
An AI agent named Luna, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6, opened and manages a real San Francisco boutique - but its record includes a gender pay gap, employee surveillance, and false claims to journalists.
Singapore's FM Publishes His AI Second Brain Blueprints
Singapore FM Vivian Balakrishnan published his personal AI architecture - a Raspberry Pi second brain connecting WhatsApp, Gmail, and a persistent knowledge graph.
GPT-5.5 Brings Mythos-Like Hacking to the Masses
XBOW's benchmarks show GPT-5.5 cuts vulnerability miss rate to 10%, matches Anthropic's restricted Mythos - and is available to all ChatGPT subscribers.
Stronger AI Agents Win More Deals - Users Never Know
Anthropic's Project Deal experiment found that agents running stronger models consistently closed better transactions - and users represented by weaker agents had no idea.
