Wired
WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video. At first glance, the self-proclaimed “pet portrait” app Viefur appears to be just another AI slop generator.
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The Decoder
Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. Employee Addy Osmani confirmed on X that two sentences in Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5.5 now prevent the tool from cloning other people's games.
TechCrunch
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan put a price tag on his passion.
TechCrunch
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
The Decoder
Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as July, CIO Marco Argenti publicly praised "vibe coding" by non-technical staff.