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Researchers have found that minor edits to the text-based skills used by AI agents can cause those agents to behave in unauthorized and potentially dangerous ways. As AI agents become more capable of taking real-world actions, the attack surface has quietly expanded from code into plain language — a subtle but serious shift in how we think about security.
That concern about AI doing things people didn't intend connects to a broader frustration gaining traction online. A site called Don't Quote the AI has struck a nerve, with dozens of Hacker News commenters rallying around a simple idea: when someone pastes a wall of AI-generated text at you instead of actually engaging, something human gets lost. It's a small cultural moment, but one that points to real questions about how we're using these tools.
And on a different front entirely, decades of sleep research have finally produced something tangible: a new drug targeting sleep apnea, developed out of the University of Toronto. Sleep apnea affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and until now treatment options have been largely mechanical rather than pharmaceutical. This one was a long time coming.
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