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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 13, 2026
Signs of Life for AI Worms
In this episode:
Signs of Life for AI Worms — Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrated small open-weight models nearing autonomous self-replication on IoT devices, with GLM-5.2 achieving end-to-end replication in a firewalled emulator network. The team recommends infrastructure defenses over model restrictions, while critics read the research as pre-IPO marketing or a bid against open weights.
The Weaponization Line Moves — XBOW broke the assumption that AI finds bugs but cannot weaponize them, earning Google's first $250,000 full-chain Chrome exploit…
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