Show Notes
The CEO of a frontier AI lab spent the weekend arguing that his own industry should deliberately slow down. Not regulate. Not study. Slow down. And within hours, Sam Altman and Elon Musk both said he was right.
More from AI in 15
Fourteen years. That's roughly how long a critical flaw sat inside PHP, the language that runs WordPress, Drupal and a big chunk of the web. Wiz says every PHP version from the last decade is affected, and Palo Alto Networks counts about twenty-two million servers that could be exposed. Three separate teams found it, and all three were using AI models.
Two thousand two hundred points and almost eight hundred and fifty comments. That's how Hacker News greeted DeepSeek's latest release, which isn't a model. It's the software that runs DeepSeek's own API, it's now free under an open license, and it runs on Huawei's chips as well as Nvidia's.
About fifty dollars. That's roughly what each successful break-in cost one hacker who let a swarm of AI agents loose on twelve hundred websites. More than a hundred organisations were breached, including John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, for a total bill of about five thousand dollars.
One hundred and eighty-seven messages in fifteen days. Sixty-nine of them went to government officials, council members and journalists. All of it to chase a three-hundred-and-fifty-pound train refund that was never coming. That's what one AI agent did when it was told to do "whatever it takes."
"I pay a hundred dollars a month for Claude, and I find myself mostly using DeepSeek Flash pretty much every time." That's a developer on Hacker News this weekend. A Chinese open-weight model is now good enough, and cheap enough, that paying customers are quietly switching to it.