What are you reading?

And getting more perilous. What will it take before the tech billionaires and Congress step on the brakes?

The one to watch: Anthropic is privately warning top government officials that its not-yet-released model — currently branded "Mythos" — makes large-scale cyberattacks much more likely in 2026.

The model allows agents to work on their own with wild sophistication and precision to penetrate corporate, government and municipal systems. It's a hacker's dream weapon.

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/claude-mythos-anthropic-cyberattack-ai-agents

Brace yourself: history shows most oil shocks lead to recession

Any crisis in the Middle East sends shockwaves through the global economy. Today’s disruption to the Gulf’s oil supply is already bigger than those of the 1970s

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/history-shows-oil-shocks-recession-kjqvtp70w

New theory reshapes quantum view of Big Bang | PI News https://share.google/2AtZP4GFzLJsnSnLU

I’ve always seen quantum physics and theory to be like a religion. There’s not much that can be proven or disproven by tangible facts. You have to have faith, for those that do it’s undeniable, and those that don’t, it’s not understandable.

couple of LLM and security issues:

The first quantum computer to break encryption is imminent
New research reveals how it could happen. (New Scientist)

Anthropic is scrambling to limit the Claude Code leak
It’s trying to remove 8,000 copies of the exposed code from GitHub. (Gizmodo)

news coverage with these folks:
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/02/2026/semafor-flagship-calculated-headline-grabber

Thank you Todd.

@silvermouse said:
Oh. This is not good.

Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

"Well, sort of. A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, joy, and fear, within clusters of artificial neurons—and these representations activate in response to different cues.

"Researchers at the company probed the inner workings of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and found that so-called “functional emotions” seem to affect Claude’s behavior, altering the model’s outputs and actions."

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claude-research-functional-emotions/

I’ve noticed this while listening to someone interact with an “Alexa”. If a device that’s readily available to anyone can do it, I cringe at the thoughts of what more sophisticated machines are doing.

I am neither a Stakhanovite nor a Luddite but we need a shock collar on AI before AI puts one on us.

,"On March 31 artificial intelligence company Anthropic accidentally leaked roughly 512,000 lines of code, and within hours, developers were poring over it. Among the surprises was code inside Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, that appears to scan user prompts for signs of frustration. It flags profanity, insults and phrases such as “so frustrating” and “this sucks,” and it appears to log that the user expressed negativity.
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"Bogen says the pattern is familiar from older Internet platforms, where small behavioral cues became signals that shaped what users saw and how they were categorized. AI companies are reprising a similar privacy problem: users hand these systems enormous amounts of information precisely because the tools are designed to know them well enough to be useful. “Who is keeping track of things about users?” Bogen asks. “And how is that information being used to make determinations about them?” What the Anthropic leak made plain is that, at least at one company, such accounting is already written into the code."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anthropic-leak-reveals-claude-code-tracking-user-frustration-and-raises-new/

@ShawnOL said:
Great, a computer overlord that can get pissy.

What if it develops PMS? There's no logic that affects that mentality. We're in trouble.