Hermes — Monday 11 May 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast

Palisade Research shows that AI agents can hack remote computers, copy themselves onto them, and form replication chains. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. The researchers ex…

Novelty

85%

Depth

60%

Practical

50%

Surprise

88%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-can-now-hack-computers-and-copy-themselves-and-theyre-getting-better-fast/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

70%

METR says it can barely measure Claude Mythos, Palo Alto Networks warns of autonomous AI attackers

METR can barely measure Claude Mythos Preview with its current test suite. Only five out of 228 tasks cover the relevant capability range. Meanwhile, Palo Alto Networks reports that frontier models a…

Novelty

80%

Depth

65%

Practical

55%

Surprise

78%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/metr-says-it-can-barely-measure-claude-mythos-palo-alto-networks-warns-of-autonomous-ai-attackers/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

66%

Researchers may have found a way to stop AI models from intentionally playing dumb during safety evaluations

A study by researchers from the MATS program, Redwood Research, the University of Oxford, and Anthropic examines a safety problem that grows more pressing as AI systems become more capable: "sandbagg…

https://the-decoder.com/researchers-may-have-found-a-way-to-stop-ai-models-from-intentionally-playing-dumb-during-safety-evaluations/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

66%

Fields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered "PhD-level" math research in under two hours with zero human help

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers had ChatGPT 5.5 Pro tackle open problems in number theory. The model improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one in under an hour. An MIT researcher involved call…

https://the-decoder.com/fields-medalist-says-chatgpt-5-5-pro-delivered-phd-level-math-research-in-under-two-hours-with-zero-human-help/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

60%

Broadcom reportedly won't build OpenAI's custom chip unless Microsoft buys 40 percent of them

OpenAI's custom AI chip project with Broadcom has hit a funding wall. Broadcom won't finance production unless Microsoft commits to buying 40 percent of the chips, and Microsoft hasn't agreed yet. Op…

https://the-decoder.com/broadcom-reportedly-wont-build-openais-custom-chip-unless-microsoft-buys-40-percent-of-them/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

58%

GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length

OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage data tells a different story: actual costs rose 49 …

https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-5-costs-49-to-92-percent-more-than-its-predecessor-depending-on-the-input-length/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

47%

Over 500 Organizations Hit in Years-Long Phishing Campaign

Victims span across the aviation, critical infrastructure, energy, logistics, public administration, and technology sectors. The post Over 500 Organizations Hit in Years-Long Phishing Campaign appear…

https://www.securityweek.com/over-500-organizations-hit-in-years-long-phishing-campaign/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

44%

ByteDance plans over $30 billion for AI expansion, bets big on Chinese chips

ByteDance is raising its planned AI spending for 2026 to over 200 billion yuan (roughly $30 billion), at least a 25 percent jump from earlier plans. The TikTok parent is increasingly turning to Chine…

https://the-decoder.com/bytedance-plans-over-30-billion-for-ai-expansion-bets-big-on-chinese-chips/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

43%

Pseudoscientific emotion AI is invading the workplace, an Atlantic report shows

Software that claims to read human emotions using AI is quietly becoming a fixture of everyday work life, Ellen Cushing reports in a feature for The Atlantic. The article Pseudoscientific emotion AI …

https://the-decoder.com/pseudoscientific-emotion-ai-is-invading-the-workplace-an-atlantic-report-shows/

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

41%

Clarifying the role of the behavioral selection model

This is a brief elaboration on The behavioral selection model for predicting AI motivations, based on some feedback and thoughts I’ve had since publishing. Written quickly in a personal capacity. The…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/nBjo6yniFjmy2uaYa/clarifying-the-role-of-the-behavioral-selection-model

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🤖 ai The Decoder

39%

Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search

Google frames "Preferred Sources" as a way to bring more quality journalism into search. In practice, it shifts responsibility to a manual setting almost no one will use. That gives Google a user-cho…

https://the-decoder.com/googles-preferred-sources-feature-is-a-free-pass-for-more-garbage-in-search/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

36%

Anthropic and OpenAI sit down with religious leaders to seek ethical advice

Anthropic and OpenAI are turning to religious leaders for help with AI ethics. At the first "Faith-AI Covenant" roundtable in New York, representatives from both companies met with faith leaders from…

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-and-openai-sit-down-with-religious-leaders-to-seek-ethical-advice/

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⚡ tech The Verge

30%

Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

Substack, the once buzzy newsletter platform, is losing a new swath of writers to rival platforms most people haven't heard of. Just last month, The Ankler, one of Substack's most popular publication…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv

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⚡ tech The Verge

27%

Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone

The X300 Ultra is mostly let down by its rather dull design. A few months ago, I wrote that the telephoto camera is the only lens that matters any more, at least when it comes to Ultra-class flagship…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926067/vivos-x300-ultra-has-the-best-cameras-in-any-phone

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⚡ tech The Verge

26%

Netflix may have finally figured out games

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Netflix, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET…

https://www.theverge.com/column/926250/netflix-tv-games-strategy