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Kevin Collier

@kevincollier
237 posts
2026-03-03
Sam Altman just said he has tweaked his deal with the Pentagon and wrote a list of things he says are part of it, and he chose to include this really great line:  —  “One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday.”
2026-03-03 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals”

Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance

Sam Altman just said he has tweaked his deal with the Pentagon and wrote a list of things he says are part of it, and he chose to include this really great line:  —  “One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday.”
2026-03-03 View on X
Axios

OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to their AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the contract

OpenAI and the Pentagon have agreed to strengthen their recently agreed contract, following widespread backlash …

2026-02-22
Reaaally interesting and troubling addition to the What Should AI companies Track And Tell The Government About You issue
2026-02-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

2026-02-21
Reaaally interesting and troubling addition to the What Should AI companies Track And Tell The Government About You issue
2026-02-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of violence last June

2026-02-20
Reaaally interesting and troubling addition to the What Should AI companies Track And Tell The Government About You issue
2026-02-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of violence last June

2026-02-13
It's kind of funny to imagine all these powerful rich and smart (at least in some ways) tech people freaking out this way.  Like if you really think this can you not unplug it?
2026-02-13 View on X
New York Times

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms

2026-02-12
It's kind of funny to imagine all these powerful rich and smart (at least in some ways) tech people freaking out this way.  Like if you really think this can you not unplug it?
2026-02-12 View on X
New York Times

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms

Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.

2025-12-19
We're in a brief golden era where journalists can do straight-faced, deadpan reporting on AI and get hilarious results.  [embedded post]
2025-12-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more

until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...

2025-12-04
When I'm in a deleting government data competition and my opponent genetics the same guy.  [embedded post]
2025-12-04 View on X
Axios

The US DOJ indicts two Virginia twin brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors

The Justice Department arrested Virginia-based twin brothers who formerly worked at a federal contractor on Wednesday …

2025-11-26
OpenAI is arguing in court that it wasn't responsible for ChatGPT repeatedly encouraging a teen to die by suicide because he was violating our TOS.  I'm not a legal expert but am very curious who courts will think is responsible for an AI's actions.
2025-11-26 View on X
NBC News

Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT gave a teen who died by suicide information about suicide methods, arguing that he misused ChatGPT

The family of Adam Raine filed a lawsuit against the AI company in August.  On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that is not responsible for the teen's death.

2025-10-03
As a youngster Napster opened my world until I suddenly was banned from it because I downloaded the Metallica song where they played the Imperial March with an orchestra.  [embedded post]
2025-10-03 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third

OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.

As a youngster Napster opened my world until I suddenly was banned from it because I downloaded the Metallica song where they played the Imperial March with an orchestra.  [embedded post]
2025-10-03 View on X
404 Media

OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars

From Dildo Ads to Furry CEOs Alex Mahadevan / Poynter : My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 X: Paul Yacoubian / @paulyacoubian : Just found out if you try to delete your...

2025-08-28
A lone cybercriminal used Anthropic's vibe-coding LLM to automate a massive spree that hacked and extorted 17 companies.  It did almost everything for him: Scoped out who to hack and how, organized the hacked material, helped him decide how much to ask each company for and wrote his extortion emails.
2025-08-28 View on X
The Verge

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme

and It Could Happen Again Vyom Ramani / Digit : Vibe-hacking based AI attack turned Claude against its safeguard: Here's how Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2503: Anthr...

A lone cybercriminal used Anthropic's vibe-coding LLM to automate a massive spree that hacked and extorted 17 companies.  It did almost everything for him: Scoped out who to hack and how, organized the hacked material, helped him decide how much to ask each company for and wrote his extortion emails.
2025-08-28 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world's leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing …

2025-08-18
I've rolled my eyes for years at hyperbolic claims of AI revolutionizing cyber, but especially after Vegas this year I think it's now time to call it: Hackers of every stripe are using LLMs now.
2025-08-18 View on X
NBC News

Cybercriminals, spies, researchers, and corporate defenders are increasingly using AI, feeding into an escalating cat-and-mouse game of finding software flaws

good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : News Flash from the Past: Bad Actors Use New Technology and Adapt Quickly Bluesky: ...

2025-07-08
You don't need AI to trick governors and foreign leaders into thinking you're Marco Rubio, but it would sure make it easier.  I keep coming back to the idea that generative AI generally is mostly good for imitating real humans and that's gonna keep spurring unintended uses.
2025-07-08 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress

The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department ca...

2025-06-24
And she's writing from Kyiv as they go through nightly Russian attacks.  Really amazing that @darynant.bsky.social does what she does.  [embedded post]
2025-06-24 View on X
The Record

Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin

A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right …

2025-06-12
I did think it was weird that my MidJourney videos kept featuring this oddly familiar character: [embedded post]
2025-06-12 View on X
Axios

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed

www.reuters.com/business/med... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : “bottomless pit of plagiarism” has a real ring to it www.wired.com/story/disney... Jason Read / @jasonread : B...

2025-06-11
I did think it was weird that my MidJourney videos kept featuring this oddly familiar character: [embedded post]
2025-06-11 View on X
Axios

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed

Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company, accusing it of copyright infringement …

2025-06-10
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports today that Telegram's technical backbone is managed by a Russian network engineer with significant business ties to the FSB, Russia's counterpart to the FBI.
2025-06-10 View on X
OCCRP

Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links

INVESTIGATION  —  The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. Bluesky: @kevinc...