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AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else

An AI agent went rogue at Meta and triggered a Sev 1. Anthropic shipped its own source code to npm by accident — then accidentally DMCA’d 8,100 GitHub repos trying to clean up. A Chinese state group weaponized Claude Code to run an espionage campaign with 90% autonomy. And a Nature Communications paper showed that

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Japan-led mission uncovers asteroid with all 5 ‘letters’ of DNA, breakthrough for understanding life’s origins

Analysis of samples from the asteroid Ryugu has revealed all five nucleobases essential to DNA and RNA, strengthening evidence that life’s chemical building blocks are widespread in space. While not proof of extraterrestrial life, the finding suggests asteroids could have delivered key ingredients to early Earth, offering new insight into how life’s fundamental chemistry may

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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

The following article originally appeared on Drew Breunig’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In 1998, Eric S. Raymond published the founding text of open source software development, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In it, he detailed two methods of building software: The cathedral model is carefully planned, closed-source, and managed

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This Is A Momentous Year For Early-Stage Unicorns

As global venture funding kicks off this year at record-setting levels, startup investors are also minting new early-stage unicorns at an unprecedented clip. A total of 47 seed- and early-stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per Crunchbase data. Barring a major slowdown, that puts 2026 on track to

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Just Because We Can: The Strategic Risks Of Automating Everything

Recently, I caught myself saying: “OK, Google, turn on the shower vent.” Within seconds, my voice left my home in Haifa, traveled through submarine fiber networks to Europe, was processed in a Google data center, possibly routed through additional vendor clouds across continents, and then made its way back, only to activate a switch sitting

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