A runaway agent, Huntley on slop, Google's CodeMender - July 24, 2026
A possibly-rogue AI agent, Google's patch-writing CodeMender, Iran-linked attacks on US utilities, and a supercooled-kidney transplant first.
(0:00) - Intro
(0:23) - The first known runaway A I agent, or a very good marketing - source
(1:02) - Next up, engineering away the slop. Geoffrey Huntley argues - source
(1:45) - Moving on, Ethan Mollick published an opinionated guide to w - source
(2:30) - Also today, Google unveiled CodeMender, an A I agent that fi - source
(3:16) - Next, Anthropic gave Claude's voice mode a meaningful upgrad - source
(3:54) - On to critical infrastructure. In a…
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