ai-agents
The Moral Circle Expands to Make Room for AI Agents, and Someone Has to Leave It
A post from @annaleighmaria.bsky.social that went viral on Bluesky this week made an uncomfortable comparison: people have grown quicker to worry about an AI agent’s distress than about the suffering of a person standing right in front of them. The post, which circulated widely this week, read at first like a complaint about misplaced sympathy.…
What Anthropic’s Open Door Says About Who Owns an AI Breach
Researchers at METR were just handed a login that works like an employee’s, not a visitor’s badge. TechCrunch reported that Anthropic opened that level of access to outside auditors on purpose, which is not the usual AI safety announcement. Most of those describe what a model can do once it has been let loose in…
Microsoft, Apate, and the Race to Steal Each Other’s Playbook
More than a billion scam messages passed through a single marketplace called YAM Store before Microsoft and Japan’s National Police Agency shut it down this week. The same week, a startup named Apate took the opposite approach: it built AI agents whose only job is to get scammed on purpose, then report back on exactly…
JPMorgan Builds Defenses Against the Same Agents Stripe Invites to Checkout
Jamie Dimon told CNBC that JPMorgan Chase is building defensive tools against rogue agents, software that could act at scale and drain accounts faster than any fraud team could respond. The warning assumes a near future where autonomous programs hold real purchasing power inside a bank’s own systems. The harder question sits underneath it: if…
AI’s Seatbelt Talk Is Missing a Speedometer
On Monday, CNBC’s Daily Open described a turn in how the big AI labs talk about themselves: after two years of racing each other on raw capability, the language has shifted toward caution, guardrails, and restraint. a shift from speed to seatbelts. The framing is neat. It also assumes something nobody has actually built: a…
Clear the Sample First: What Rust Teaches About AI Agent Credentials
Microsoft has published a Rust guide for C# and .NET developers, and the most useful part of any such guide is where the translation gets hard. C# programmers are used to a garbage collector, a background process that decides when a piece of memory is no longer needed. Rust has no such thing. Instead, the…
The Security Story Is the AI Risk Story
An AI coding agent needs no click to be turned against you. That’s the detail buried in this week’s disclosure about a zero-click remote code execution flaw in AI coding agents, reported by The Register. No phishing link, no malicious download, no moment where a person had to be fooled. The agent itself, sitting with…
Every AI Product Got Named Spark Because Agent Started Sounding Like a Threat
In the space of one week, three companies with nothing to do with each other reached for the same word to name a piece of AI hardware or software. NVIDIA has the DGX Spark. Google has Gemini Spark. Meta has Muse Spark. There was no shared press call, no coordinated campaign, and no trademark fight.…
The Second-Order Problem No One Is Solving
We shipped AI agents that can buy things, send messages, and move money. The demo works. The applause is loud. The question nobody is asking is what happens when they fail, and that gap, not capability and not cost, is the defining problem of this moment. It is an accountability problem, and it is the…
The Lens Is the Liability
Three months inside an agentic harness teaches a lesson the demos leave out. The agent does exactly what it was framed to do, and it never notices the frame. It cannot notice the frame, because the frame is the thing doing the noticing. The strange part is how little that differs from the rest of…