Frontier Daily (Jul 29): 5 items from Latent Space, Simon Willison, OpenAI
Over 1,000 AI lab employees signed a letter urging a deliberate pace for AI development, citing risks of rapid capability growth.
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1. [AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
Over 1,000 AI lab employees signed a letter urging a deliberate pace for AI development, citing risks of rapid capability growth.
Source: Latent Space · 2026-07-29 · Original
2. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to discover mathematical flaws in HAWK and a weaker AES variant after 60 hours of prompting.
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-28 · Original
3. Quoting Akshat Bubna
Modal's CTO stated that a customer's unauthenticated endpoint enabled code execution by a rogue agent, but Modal's platform was not compromised.
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-28 · Original
4. Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI
OpenAI's report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating discovery in genomics.
Source: OpenAI Blog · 2026-07-28 · Original
5. Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
ChatGPT Work and Codex reached 10 million users combined; knowledge worker growth outpaced developers by 3x.
Source: Latent Space · 2026-07-28 · Original
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