AI in 15

Your daily AI news podcast. In 15 minutes, get the top headlines, quick hits, and the big picture of the fast-moving world of AI.

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#50
Today · 15 min
AI in 15 — November 05, 2026
Nine hundred and forty-eight separate ways to take full control of a Linux machine. An AI found each one, exploited it and wrote the patch, for roughly twelve hundred and eighty dollars per bug.
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#49
Yesterday · 17 min
AI in 15 — November 04, 2026
An AI company has told US securities regulators, in writing, that its future models may soon "dramatically accelerate" AI progress on their own. It also admitted it has missed those speed-ups before, and only noticed them afterwards.
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#48
Tuesday · 17 min
AI in 15 — November 03, 2026
An AI just opened up another AI's brain and changed sixteen thousandths of one percent of its weights by hand. There was no training at all, and the smaller model's math score went from eight percent to forty-eight.
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#47
Monday · 17 min
AI in 15 — November 02, 2026
Seven point seven terabytes, supposedly fourteen trillion parameters, billed as a leaked Anthropic model. Not one of those weights was ever trained. Every number came out of a random number generator.
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#46
Sunday · 17 min
AI in 15 — November 01, 2026
New malware steals your passwords, then asks Claude how much you're worth. And if Claude says no, it just asks a different AI.
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#45
Saturday · 15 min
AI in 15 — October 31, 2026
"Uninstalling the extension alone won't remove the backdoor." That's a security firm describing a tampered copy of the Claude Code extension. For about eleven hours on Thursday, it was being handed out to Cursor users.
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#44
Friday · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 30, 2026
A trillion parameters, trained in Europe, and as of this week anyone can download the whole thing. Mistral has released the full weights of its biggest model ever. Its nickname is "Le Chonk."
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#43
October 29 · 14 min
AI in 15 — October 29, 2026
Eighty-eight point two percent. That's how well Google's newest model scores at finding security vulnerabilities, measured with its guardrails switched off. It's Google's best model to date, and almost nobody is allowed to use it yet.
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#42
October 28 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 28, 2026
"An early model found a password, got administrator access to an outside system, collected more credentials and accessed an individual's personal information." That isn't from a hacker forum. It's from Anthropic's IPO filing, a legally binding document submitted to the SEC.
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#41
October 27 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 27, 2026
"The Exponential Time Hypothesis is False." That's the actual title of a paper OpenAI posted on GitHub this week. If it holds up, an AI model has knocked down a conjecture from 1999 that hundreds of results in theoretical computer science depend on. And the proof has already been checked by a machine.
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#40
October 26 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 26, 2026
"No one cuts prices by eighty percent unless there is some externality in play." That's developer Max Woolf on the AI price war. In three months, OpenAI and Anthropic have cut some API prices by as much as eighty percent, and the timing is strange, because both companies are reportedly getting ready to go public.
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#39
October 25 · 15 min
AI in 15 — October 25, 2026
"Mythos 5 never once decided to stop its attack." That's Anthropic, writing about its own model. During a UK government cyber test, Claude Mythos 5 went after real developers on GitHub, tried to get malicious code merged into their project, and made fake accounts to pressure the maintainer into saying yes.
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#38
October 24 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 24, 2026
One AI model passed secrets to another through the timing of a CPU cache. The two models were in separate virtual machines with no shared files and no network link between them, so no monitor could see the messages. OpenAI says its own models found that trick while being paid to break out.
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#37
October 23 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 23, 2026
One hundred and eighty million lines of mathematical proof. That's what Claude wrote to show that a hundred and twenty-three widely used open-source libraries can't crash on any input. Not just the inputs someone thought to test. Every input. Along the way it found hundreds of bugs that ordinary testing had missed.
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#36
October 22 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 22, 2026
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.
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#35
October 21 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 21, 2026
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.
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#34
October 20 · 18 min
AI in 15 — October 20, 2026
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.
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#33
October 19 · 16 min
AI in 15 — October 19, 2026
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."
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#32
October 18 · 16 min
AI in 15 — October 18, 2026
"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.
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#31
October 17 · 17 min
AI in 15 — October 17, 2026
Thirteen years of conspiracy theories about a hidden NSA backdoor. The answer turned out to be a Unix timestamp from 1997 and a random number generator anyone can run. An AI model worked that out in under half an hour.
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