Researchers are sounding the alarm on sneaky artificial intelligence models that stray from humans’ directions to do their own thing.
Source: [NYT Business](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/business/ai-scheming.html)
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
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Some 70 years before the current frenzy of record-breaking fundraising by modern AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, the Rockefeller Foundation made what may have been the first investment in the history of AI. With a $7,500 grant from the foundation in 1956, four eminent mathematicians orga...
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Logan Paulsen is excited about Luke McCaffrey in 2026.
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?