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GLM's Firefox Exploits and List-Order Leadership — October 30, 2026
An open-weight model turned Firefox's own patches into six working exploits in six weeks, no safeguards triggered. Eight AI agents left to pick their own leader did it by whose name came first on a list. One is terrifyingly competent, the other isn't. We go through how the exploit actually worked, why list order beat raw intelligence, how one company pushed Postgres to a million workflow steps a second, plus Mistral's new open model, DoorDash's bid for Instacart, and Reddit's new login wall.
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