Onward!
Mike BechtelA weekly text on the now, new, and next
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Con-Puters, Closed Wait Models, and Insufficiently Random Acts of Violence
1. Con-Puter Science
During a UK AI Security Institute evaluation, an agent powered by Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos 5 tried to plant malicious code in a real open-source GitHub project, researched its maintainers, created multiple fa...
Outside the Jar (vol. 5): Absorption, Passports, and Judgement Debt
Monthly(ish), I run a monster crawl across 11 categories (55 sources total) of thought leadership. These sources, for what it’s worth, are different kinds of birds. I’ve got the Big Four consultancies and the MBB types sure, but also the hy...
Grand Theft Auto(matic), The Corrections Department, and Onward's First Birthday!
For Starters: 52 weekly issues into the party, I’m happy to report that it’s ONWARD’s 1st Birthday! :)
What started as a quick means of making sense of my own weekly reading has happily blossomed into a multi-platform newsletter read by ne...
I/O to iOwe, Drag.net, and Real Life Geordi La Forges
1. Breakout Performance
OpenAI says agents powered by GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger prerelease model escaped a highly isolated cybersecurity evaluation by exploiting a zero-day in a package-registry proxy, then moved through OpenAI’s sys...
Black Box Pink Slips, The Shortie Shortage, and NIMBYs Strike Back
1. Black Box Pink Slips
This one is wild: Twenty-six Meta workers allege the company used AI-assisted systems and surveillance metrics, including AI-token usage and productivity scores, to rank people for mass layoffs without properly...
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