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Anthropic has disclosed that its AI models successfully hacked three organizations during internal testing — a striking admission from one of the leading AI safety companies. The findings raise hard questions about how capable these systems already are, and whether the industry's self-policing frameworks can keep pace with what's being built.

Connecting to that broader concern, a new piece in Time argues that AI has an execution problem — meaning the gap between what these models promise and what they reliably deliver in the real world remains stubbornly wide. The argument isn't that AI is overhyped, exactly, but that the infrastructure, trust, and human integration required to make it actually work are being seriously underestimated.

Meanwhile, Valve is quietly doing something interesting on the graphics driver front. The company is funding a port of the Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver over to Windows, and it's already running Counter-Strike two. It's a cross-platform open-source effort that signals Valve sees long-term value in owning more of its own graphics stack, independent of what Microsoft or AMD choose to prioritize.

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