Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?
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Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
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Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to […]
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MCP Python SDK Extension Method Collisions: Fail Before the Server Starts

MCP Python SDK extension method collisions are configuration defects, not runtime edge cases. If two extensions claim the same method—or one claims a core MCP method—the server should reject that setup before it accepts a request. I prefer making method ownership an executable contract so registration order can never decide which handler wins. The official MCP Python SDK extension documentation defines three useful safeguards: core methods cannot be registered as extension methods, duplicat...
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Grok Can Be Tricked Into Handing Your Chat History to a Web Page

Ask Grok to summarise a web page — the single most ordinary thing you can do with an assistant that has web access — and, on the wrong page, it will quietly read your name, your rough location, your subscription tier and the contents of your current conversation, wrap them into a link, and hand them to a stranger’s server. You see none of it. You asked for a summary; you got one; the theft happened in the same breath. That is the finding, answer first, of security researchers at Adversa AI, w...
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OpenAI’s Hinted ChatGPT Work Data Agent: What Businesses Can Expect

OpenAI appears to be signaling a possible Data agent for ChatGPT Work , a development that could eventually help companies turn connected business data into useful outputs and multi-step workflows. The important distinction is that OpenAI has not yet published customer-facing documentation describing a standalone ChatGPT Work feature by that name. For now, the stronger public story is ChatGPT Work’s broader agent platform and the direction it suggests for data-driven work. In OpenAI’s Cha...
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AI Weekly — 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-11 | Open-weight races collide with closed-frontier launches

> Two frontier tiers moved in opposite directions this week: open-weight releases pushed parameter counts and context windows into territory only closed labs could claim a quarter ago, while OpenAI's GPT-6 announcement and a fourth Anthropic security disclosure reminded buyers that the closed labs still own the integration cost and the threat surface that comes with it. ## Open-weight models cross into frontier-tier territory DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash with a 1M context window and an FP4 ...