⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks
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This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login flows all gave away more than intended. Some of it was clever. Most of it was just access left lying around: old bugs, exposed gear, poisoned dependencies, weak defaults, and tooling that moved from
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It's pretty clear that we've crossed the point where model specialization starts to really matter, and models trained/RLed heavily to code well (like Opus 5) are going to underperform in other aspects.
— Jared Sleeper (@JaredSleeper) August 3, 2026
Opus 5 Max is below Opus 4.6 Thinking in Text Arena, for instance. https://t.co/AxD0F9IGwj pic.twitter.com/FVu6BctFnA