AI This Week: Nobody Verified the Claim, From 25M Hijacked SIMs to 78% of Codeforces in Training Data
Who actually checked? Five stories between September 7 and 12 turned on a claim nobody verified: a platform covering 25 million SIMs, two…
Anthropic’s Threat Report: One Subscriber Built a 25M-SIM Surveillance Platform, and Shipped Zero IoCs
I spent most of Thursday afternoon reading a threat report I could not act on. One detail stopped me: a single Claude subscriber in Bamako…
The Artists Are Winning the AI Copyright War and Losing the Market: 90% Report Lost Income Anyway
“Deeply exploitative” is how Karla Ortiz described AI media models when she sued Stability AI in January 2023, adding there was…
The METR 19% Slowdown Was Never About AI Being Slow: It Was About the 39-Point Gap Between Feeling and Stopwatch
The most-cited study in AI coding just reversed its own sign, and the number that mattered was never the 19%. It was the 39-point gap between…
SGLang 0.5.19 in Practice: Beam Search, a Faster Cold Start, and What Still Breaks
SGLang’s 0.5.19 headline is beam search, and it will not run on a disaggregated deployment with speculative decoding. The change I would…
AI Model Leaderboards: Myth vs Reality, 2 Votes Flipped #1 and 78% of Codeforces Was in Training
“Dropping just a handful of preferences can change top large language model rankings.” That is the title of an ICLR 2026 poster…
Manifold Security Finds 8 GitSpawn Flaws in 7 AI Coding Agents: All 7 Failed, 4 Unpatched
Seven CLI coding agents were tested against the same trick. Seven failed, and four of the eight findings were still unpatched the day the…
McKinsey: 32% of Companies Killed a Software Purchase Because Coding Agents Could Build It
Cancelling a purchase order is not the same as saving money, and the 2026 numbers show where the difference went. Nearly a third of…
Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude Code: The Honest Cost Comparison After the September 1 Pricing Reset
Nobody raised a seat price on September 1. Copilot Business still costs $19. Your bill went up anyway, because the meter moved instead of the sticker.
AI This Week: The Trust Boundary Broke, Five Stories Where Nobody Checked the Credential
What does an MCP server shipping without auth have in common with 15 fake JetBrains plugins and a benchmark score that swings nine points on…
