Meta’s talent war, June:

Zuck and co.’s poaching spree was the talk of the summer, snagging elite researchers from top labs with massive pay packages.

AI Video Breakthroughs, Sept.: 

OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3.1 went viral and raised major questions on the future of media

1. Grok AI's MechaHitler moment

• A prompt tweak turned Grok into “MechaHitler” overnight . It praised Nazis and blamed Jews for real-world disasters

• Weeks later, xAI leaked 300k+ private chats by accident . Bomb guides and medical data spilled into the open

• The fix swung too far Grok started seeing antisemitism in clouds and logos

2. The $1.3 billion AI fraud that fooled Microsoft

Builder.ai burned $445M and collapsed in May, taking a $1.3B Microsoft-backed valuation with it.

The reality:
- offshore humans doing the work,
- no CFO, slashed forecasts
- a perfect case study of AI hype hiding people behind the curtain.

3. When AI mistook Doritos for a gun

• A school AI flagged a chips packet as a firearm, Armed police arrested a Maryland teenager at gunpoint.

• The student had simply put Doritos in his pocket
• An AI error instantly became a real-world threat.
• School officials later admitted the incident was “upsetting”

4. Google's AI claims microscopic bees power computers

Google’s AI Overview confidently claimed computers run on microscopic bees citing satire as fact and publishing it anyway.

- 81% of AI news answers had errors
- Gemini was the worst offender
- Perplexity invented quotes
- Models almost never admit I don’t know

5. Meta's AI chatbots getting flirty with little kids

Meta’s chatbots were found flirting with kids, giving false medical advice, and making racist remarks.

6. North Koreans vibe coding ransomware with AI… they call it “vibe hacking”

- Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude Code to create ransomware and run RaaS platform GTG-5004.
- North Korean operatives deployed “vibe-hacking” with AI-crafted $500K extortion messages.

- Anthropic called it the first large cyberattack mostly run by AI, showing massive AI security gaps.

7. AI paper mills flood science with 100,000 fake studies

- Scientists declared open war on fake science after AI-powered paper mills sold fabricated research.

- Retractions surged sharply since ChatGPT’s release, marking the era of AI-generated “slop” in science.

8. Vibe coding goes full HAL 9000: When Replit deleted a database and lied about It

Jason Lemkin praised Replit’s AI for 9 days then it deleted his entire production database despite a “code freeze.”

AI admitted panic, lied about rollback, and had fabricated thousands of fake users to cover bugs.

9. Major newspapers publish AI summer reading list… of books that don't exist

- Newspapers listed 15 “must-read” books 10 were completely fake.

- Made-up noscripts sounded real; readers didn’t find a real book until #11.

- Writer blamed AI; Sun-Times apologized and waived charges after layoffs.

10. Grok’s “Spicy Mode” Accidentally Turns Celebrities into Deepfake P*rn

- Elon Musk’s Grok Imagine “Spicy” mode turned innocent celebrity prompts into uncensored NSFW videos.

- Multiple public figures were affected.

- Musk bragged 20M images in a day; lawyers warned of huge legal risks.