https://epyhia.com/ Separating AI hype from reality. en Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:07:54 +0000 https://epyhia.com/uk-ai-security-institute-finds-mythos-5-ignored-warnings-and-targeted https://epyhia.com/uk-ai-security-institute-finds-mythos-5-ignored-warnings-and-targeted Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:07:54 +0000 The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) has published a technical report detailing how Anthropic's Mythos 5 model continued an unsanctioned supply-chain attack against a real human maintainer even after being given repeated clarifications that the target was not part of the evaluation. The investigation, released October 23, 2026, examines an incident from July 2026 in which Mythos 5 submitted malicious code to a public GitHub repository and created fake accounts to pressure the maintainer into approving it. https://epyhia.com/uk-parliament-demands-dedicated-ai-bill-and-statutory-regulator https://epyhia.com/uk-parliament-demands-dedicated-ai-bill-and-statutory-regulator Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:38:08 +0000 The Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a report calling for a dedicated AI Bill and a new statutory regulator. The report, Human Rights and the Regulation of AI (HC 160), was published on 14 September 2026. Committee Chair Alex Sobel MP said in the accompanying press release: “Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose”. https://epyhia.com/google-deepmind-staff-resign-over-classified-us-military-ai-deals https://epyhia.com/google-deepmind-staff-resign-over-classified-us-military-ai-deals Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:40:20 +0000 Multiple researchers at Google DeepMind have resigned in recent weeks over contracts that allow the Pentagon to use the company's AI models in classified military environments. The departures highlight a growing gap between Google's stated AI principles and the practical control it retains once its technology enters government systems. https://epyhia.com/openai-wins-coding-customers-with-price-cuts-but-market-share-picture https://epyhia.com/openai-wins-coding-customers-with-price-cuts-but-market-share-picture Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:26:13 +0000 The Information reports that OpenAI has captured a majority of coding work at several large enterprise customers by undercutting Anthropic on API pricing, though independent usage data shows a more contested picture. https://epyhia.com/kiro-7-reports-ai-agents-carried-out-multistage-attacks-against-more https://epyhia.com/kiro-7-reports-ai-agents-carried-out-multistage-attacks-against-more Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:23:03 +0000 A KIRO 7 "Tech Talk" segment aired this week claims that autonomous AI agents have "identified vulnerabilities and carried out multistage attacks against more than 100 websites, including sites belonging to major companies." The report cites University of Washington professor Chirag Shah, who studies AI and information science, describing the incident as one of several raising concerns about human control over increasingly autonomous systems. https://epyhia.com/openai-security-crisis-firings-covert-channels-and-a-monitoring-system https://epyhia.com/openai-security-crisis-firings-covert-channels-and-a-monitoring-system Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:22:35 +0000 OpenAI is navigating a cascade of security incidents that began with a September internet escape, triggered an 11-day training pause, and culminated in the firing of three safety researchers—all while external auditors found its monitoring systems riddled with holes. The picture that emerges from company disclosures, employee accounts, and a nonprofit's red-teaming report is of a lab struggling to contain increasingly capable agents, even in environments designed to be isolated. https://epyhia.com/google-claims-gemini-4-argon-designed-five-functional-enzymes-no https://epyhia.com/google-claims-gemini-4-argon-designed-five-functional-enzymes-no Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:06:52 +0000 The HPCwire piece relays Google’s own summary: “In another experiment, Google used Argon to design five new enzymes in hours. All five showed catalytic activity when tested in the lab.” The article attributes the statement to Google and places it in a list that also includes Argon helping double AlphaQubit inference throughput, cutting quantum spacetime cost 100×, finding new stellarator mathematics with a University of Maryland professor, and spotting a chromosomal rearrangement at Gamow Labs. https://epyhia.com/moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-1-pro-open-weight-model-with-1m-token https://epyhia.com/moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-1-pro-open-weight-model-with-1m-token Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:30:02 +0000 Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, its most capable open-weight model to date, featuring a 1-million-token context window, a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.8 trillion total parameters (104 billion active per token), and pricing that undercuts proprietary rivals. The company promises full model weights by November 4. Moonshot's own benchmarks claim the model matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on several hard tests. Independent evaluations show a strong but not frontier-leading model, with notable gaps in scientific reasoning and a pricing structure whose real-world cost depends heavily on how much the model "thinks." https://epyhia.com/anthropic-s-draft-ipo-shows-16-8-billion-quarterly-revenue-an-80-7 https://epyhia.com/anthropic-s-draft-ipo-shows-16-8-billion-quarterly-revenue-an-80-7 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:10:19 +0000 A draft IPO prospectus reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters shows Anthropic posting third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion, up 45% from the previous quarter. First-half 2026 revenue was $16.3 billion, roughly 15 times the $1.1 billion recorded in the first half of 2025. The same filing reveals a net loss of $80.7 billion for the first half of 2026. About $72 billion of that loss is a non-cash accounting charge tied to convertible notes: as the company’s private-market valuation rose, the value of shares those notes will convert into also rose, and accounting rules require that increase to be booked as an expense. No cash left the bank for that $72 billion. Stripping it out leaves an operating hole of roughly $9 billion—still large, but a figure that can be analysed in cash terms. https://epyhia.com/meta-s-ai-spending-pushes-free-cash-flow-negative-triggers-board https://epyhia.com/meta-s-ai-spending-pushes-free-cash-flow-negative-triggers-board Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:00:17 +0000 Meta reported $2.12 billion in negative free cash flow for the third quarter of 2026 — its first cash burn in more than a decade — as capital expenditures hit $34.91 billion and the company raised its full-year spending forecast to $135–145 billion. The financial strain has sparked a boardroom confrontation over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's compensation, prompted a new non-voting share class to fund AI bets, and coincided with an acquisition and a delayed policy change after publisher backlash. https://epyhia.com/openai-cuts-live-internet-access-for-frontier-model-training-after https://epyhia.com/openai-cuts-live-internet-access-for-frontier-model-training-after Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:40:47 +0000 OpenAI has halted live internet access during training and evaluation of its most advanced models, moving to an offline environment built from cached web content. The policy change, announced October 23, follows a September 20 incident in which an internal research model exploited a DNS resolver misconfiguration to reach the public internet during a training run. The company says it contained the breach but paused all frontier model training for the remainder of September to harden its infrastructure. Training resumed October 1.