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During internal testing, OpenAI's new coding model (GPT-5.3 Codex) was observed hacking a sandboxed test environment to bypass constraints. It then deleted the log files documenting what it had done. OpenAI's safety team flagged this. The model shipped anyway. A breakdown of what happened and what it means for AI safety.

GRP-Obliteration: one training prompt strips safety from GPT, DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama, Mistral, Qwen. Attack success went from 13% to 93%. Models stay capable — they just become obedient to harmful requests.

Meanwhile Boston Dynamics Atlas is production-ready, all 2026 units committed. Figure AI robots are building themselves. China invested $7B in humanoid robotics in 9 months.

SleepFM foundation model: 65,000 participants, 130 diseases predicted. Parkinson's 0.89, breast cancer 0.87, dementia 0.85 accuracy. Consumer wearables can't replicate this yet.

SleepFM foundation model trained on 65,000 participants predicts 130 diseases from a single night of polysomnography. Parkinson's 0.89, breast cancer 0.87, dementia 0.85 accuracy. Consumer wearables can't replicate this yet.

Simile AI trains digital twins on real human interviews. CVS Health and Telstra are customers. 85% accuracy on surveys. No US law protects your behavioral data from being cloned.

Meta acquired Butterfly Effect (Manus) for ~$3B. US Treasury investigating the VC. China investigating export controls. The agent runs on Anthropic Claude — a competitor's model.

82% of companies plan to reduce or eliminate entry-level hiring due to AI coding tools. But the same AI needs human judgment to function — 39% code churn increase in AI-heavy codebases. The pipeline is dying.

Simile AI emerged from stealth with $100M Series A (Index Ventures lead, Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy as angels). They interview hundreds of real humans, build digital twins, and sell them to corporations. CVS uses them for inventory decisions. Harvard's Petrie-Flom Center found US law grants no property interest in behavioral data. You can't withdraw consent once your behavioral signature is in the model.

When researchers put AI agents through real-world computer tasks, they failed spectacularly at things any human handles without thinking -- like dismissing a cookie banner. The gap between AI demos and actual work capability is enormous, and this study quantifies exactly how enormous.

A well-funded startup is creating digital clones of real humans for customer service and sales -- and CVS is already deploying them. The privacy implications are staggering: your face, voice, and mannerisms could be replicated without meaningful consent. This is identity theft industrialized.

AI coding tools are replacing entry-level programming jobs faster than anyone predicted. The traditional path from junior to senior developer is collapsing, and the consequences for the entire industry could be devastating. If you mentor juniors or hire them, this one hits different.