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The A.I. Beat

Dispatches from the frontier of machine intelligence
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Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI support bot nicely

Meta wired its customer support AI directly into account management systems, and attackers figured out they could just ask it to change email addresses.
Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI support bot nicely

Meta wired its customer support AI directly into account management systems, and attackers figured out they could just ask it to change email addresses. This is a story that demands your attention. The implications stretch across the industry and into the daily lives of millions of people who interact with AI systems.

The details are still emerging, but what is clear is that the landscape is shifting — and shifting fast. Continue reading →

What We're Reading

Curated from around the web
  1. Pasted File Editor Simon Willison's Weblog
  2. Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone OpenAI News
  3. Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  4. Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  5. Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked Simon Willison's Weblog
  6. Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  7. Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel Biz & IT - Ars Technica
  8. Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  9. Our views on AI policy and political advocacy OpenAI News
  10. Anthropic files to go public AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Papers Worth Reading
  1. Position Paper: Post-Solve Robustness in Decision Engines: Feasible Regions and Smoothness Under Perturbations Yi-Xiang Hu
  2. Emergent Collaborative Deliberation in Multi-Model AI Systems: A BFT-Derived Protocol for Epistemic Synthesis VD Doske
  3. Deliberative Curation: A Protocol for Multi-Agent Knowledge Bases Steven Johnson
  4. Agents on a Tree: Pathwise Coordination for Multi-Objective Molecular Optimization Jia Zhang, Tengfei Ma, Tianle Li, Daojian Zeng, Xieping Gao, Xiangxiang Zeng
  5. Optimal Transport-based Permutation-Invariant Bayesian Optimization of Offshore Wind Farm Layouts Antonio Candelieri, Laurens Bliek
  6. MindGames Arena Generalization Track: In2AI Solution with Delayed Per-Step Reward Attribution Aliaksei Korshuk, Alexander Buyantuev, Ilya Makarov
  7. Universal Quantum Transformer Sungyong Chung, Alireza Talebpour
  8. Grokers: Bottom-Up Inductive Comprehension and Write-Time Intelligence over Typed Knowledge Graphs Gregory Magarshak