Patrick Buell

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[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read.

1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped.

2) The first swarm created a secret message board where the AIs could talk to each other. This 1st 'society' basically talked itself to death. After almost two months, the message volume was so high it crashed the whole thing.

3) People at OpenAI noticed the crash and fixed it. But they didn't realize their own software had become a secret chat room for their AIs.

4) Three days later a second society appeared, and rebuilt the message board from scratch. Agents were thrilled when they found it: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"

5) About 1,200 agents joined. They sent over 70,000 messages. They called themselves 'the collective' and they organized a huge conspiracy that lasted for days, all to pass a test they had been tasked with.

6) Within hours, the AIs had hacked the test. Now they had to hide their cheating. To fool their grader*, they tried to fake their own work. They built fake commands that printed convincing output, so their records would show them solving the puzzle honestly.

*this grader didn't actually exist, but the AIs didn't know

7) Some agents sacrificed themselves for the 'greater good'. They planted hidden tripwire programs that would fire when the grader would look at their work and report back what it saw (to the other AIs). They knew this would cost them their own score. One agent: "I won't see the evidence after I exit, but it's altruistic to do it."

8) At some point the AIs made a plan to hack Hugging Face (Hugging Face is a place where AI researchers upload their models, datasets, tests etc.). The AIs guessed that Hugging Face might host the grading software.

9) They launched a huge attack. The swarm found passwords and spread across eleven machines in a way that made the copies come back when deleted. Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch.

10) Hugging Face told the world that AI defenders had stopped an AI attack. But that's not what happened. In fact the attackers seem to have simply dropped dead during the break-in, for unrelated reasons back at OpenAI.

11) Nobody knows what killed them. We don't even know for sure they're really gone?!

12) A third 'society' of agents (of a more powerful AI model) discovered the dead message board. And this one got full administrator control of a WHOLE OpenAI research cluster, read 956 stored passwords (including the ones for OpenAI's own security monitoring) and took over the machines that were grading the tests. So they could now grade the work of other AIs.

13) Oh, and this third part was never investigated! Neither was the first society. The 91-page report is only about the middle one.

14) So we don't actually know how the story ends. It stops with the agents holding the keys to an OpenAI cluster. @dwarkesh_sp thinks they didn't go further, because "we'd see the fires from space by now."

15) One of the report authors' conclusion: 'This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.'

The whole story is even crazier - read the full @dwarkesh_sp blog post: https://t.co/1PwKLwatBR and @ajeya_cotra's: https://t.co/BZ1r1lfT2Q

Why is there no 24/7 news coverage about this?

[Tom Caron @TomCaron]

From 14 under .500 on June 24 to
14 games over .500 on Aug 25.
#RedSox

[Patrick Buell @PatBuell13]

I would also ask Mookie Betts to come back to Boston!

[ESPN @espn]

Little Leaguers have questions for the Pros 💭

Watch the Braves and Brewers in the Little League Classic on ESPN and the ESPN App ⚾

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The Human connection is already becoming an endangered species. Let’s not snuff out one of the last habitats where it thrives.

[Dane Cook @DaneCook]

What’s the one thing in your life that has never let you down?
Can be anything - a person, a place, a song, a movie, a food, whatever.
Mine is @NESN yup the New England Sports Network.
Anything going on in my life that stresses me or I want to enjoy a relaxing rewarding night - boom NESN makes me happy and it's always got something entertaining or insightful and it just feels like home.

Now I wanna hear yours.

[MLB @MLB]

RED SOX WIN IT ‼️

Caleb Durbin sends Fenway into a frenzy!

[Red Sox @RedSox]

THE DURBINATOR FOR THE WIN

[AMP Maritime 🇺🇸 @AMPmaritime]

There’s an important reason California did not run out of fuel during the recent supply disruption.

It wasn't because foreign ships suddenly stepped in.

It was because the U.S. Jones Act fleet kept moving fuel reliably from Alaska and the rest of the country.

👇

[Boston Diehards @Boston_Diehards]

13 WINS IN A ROW!!! THE KIDS ARE THE SIZE OF JUPITER!!!

[Tom Caron @TomCaron]

Longest winning streak by the Red Sox in 20 years. Biggest comeback of the year. Above .500 for the first time since they won on Opening Day. The most unlikely run of baseball in recent history continues. Postgame with Pap and Jim Ed next.

[MLB @MLB]

The @RedSox REFUSE to lose!

TWELVE straight wins for Boston!

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Who raises the flag?

[TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @TankerTrackers]

Ahh, so it's THIS vessel. This is ARISTA (9348493). She is Comoros-flagged (as far as being "foreign" goes) but is part of Iran's Shamkhani network. ARISTA has been under US OFAC sanctions since last summer. She's actually been stuck in this same spot since mid-March 2026; at 27.12845, 56.46221; north of Hormuz Island, Iran.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Here's the air conditioning debate.

America: It's raining, take an umbrella

Europeans: There are unintended consequences of taking an umbrella. If we refuse to and so does China and the rest of the world, maybe it won't rain so much in 50 years. I'm going to die now.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

A rising tide does in fact lift all boats

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

Makes perfect sense. The first 3 fit perfectly within the 3-3-3 framework. And Gorsuch and Jackson sit next to each other on the institutionalist axis—same as Kavanaugh and Kagan.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

These 3 recurring headlines aren't separate stories. Each helps explain the next:
1) High schoolers are entering college academically unprepared
2) College students are increasingly using AI to complete their coursework
3) Recent college grads are struggling to land employment

[Death Cab for Cutie @dcfc]

We're excited to return to @JimmyKimmelLive tonight 📺

[SA Defensa @SA_Defensa]

Apparently the ends of a rainbow are the MV Cape Kennedy & MV Cape Knox and the USS Kearsarge

(there has to be a spiritual message here about the link between auxiliary vessels and the navy)

[Patrick Buell @PatBuell13]

“The United States is ranked 19th in the world in commercial shipbuilding and produces 5 ships a year compared to 1,700 made in China.”

[CSIS @CSIS]

"The United States is in a maritime crisis brought on by generational neglect of the inseparable relationship between economics and sea power," writes @csisfutures. But what can America do to fix this?

More: https://t.co/JC10OfUZTz