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OpenAI says ChatGPT and its broader product family now reach more than one billion weekly active users , a scale that makes AI assistants a practical operating question for far more businesses. The company also says its products serve 2.5 million businesses , according to a mid-August 2026 usage snapshot. The milestone does not mean every organization has an effective AI strategy. It does mean familiarity with AI copilots is increasingly widespread among employees, customers, and prospective...

NIGHTCELL 7 has a second soundtrack album: When the Ravens Lied by Þrøngva, twelve new tracks in the same drop-D Viking metal and hip-hop style as After the Winter of Want . They are in the game now, next to the first album's twenty. Who this is for Anyone playing the free sandbox, in the browser or on the desktop client. Nothing here costs money. What the album is about Odin sends two ravens out every morning and believes what they bring back. On this album so...

$87,000 vs roughly $1,000. Those were our first estimates for processing a corpus of 6.5 million semantic atoms with Sonnet or training and running a smaller model ourselves. I was ready to build the smaller model. Our job was narrow. We needed to read financial text and record who said what, what they claimed, and how certain the source was. A wrong speaker or an invented certainty would become a record that other parts of the system trusted. Sonnet was our quality anchor. We would use it to...

Originally published at erikhill.dev . The numbers below are checked against the repository they come from. My factual-recall tasks were scoring format, not facts This is a finding about my own harness. The suspect is the probe, not the models it measures. What happened I built a detector that decides whether a day's drift run contains anything worth writing up. The first thing it did was accuse my own suite. One task, fact-element , had failed on three or ...

Originally published at erikhill.dev . The numbers below are checked against the repository they come from. Twice the data, less power: my stability rule got blinder the harder I looked This is a finding about a measurement rule, not about a model. The models did not change. What happened I was comparing two models on a frozen 159 task suite and I had a problem most eval code does not admit to having: the same model, asked the same question three times, some...

From Scanning to Self-Assessment: Using ZoomEye to Inventory Your Own Attack Surface Internet-wide scanners are a double-edged tool. Attackers use them to find exposed systems; defenders can use the same capability to discover what they have accidentally exposed. In 2026, government advisories have repeatedly pointed to scanning services as part of the attacker's workflow, which makes the defensive use of the same data both practical and urgent. This article explains how to turn ZoomEye meas...

Software has borrowed a surprising amount from manufacturing. Not from manufacturing in the sense of “let’s put programmers on an assembly line.” Thankfully, we’ve tried enough variations of that idea already. I mean something more interesting. Some of the most influential ideas in modern software development came from looking at how Toyota transformed manufacturing. Lean Software Development, Kanban, limiting work in progress, reducing waste, optimizing flow, continuous improvement, pull ...

I was deep in thought about how much of a model hallucination is RLHF-based assumption in the absence of training data or context. Pretraining gives the model the ability to confabulate. Post-training often influences whether it chooses to confabulate rather than say "I don't know." A base language model is trained to predict plausible continuations. If the evidence needed to answer is absent from its weights or context, there's no fundamental mechanism in next-token prediction that says "st...

Treat a permission failure on one path as a capability-discovery problem: record the operation that path intends to perform, compare it with the credential's declared grants, and stop before making the outbound call. Rotating the key first can hide the mismatch while quietly widening its blast radius. TL;DR: In a customer-support service, give each workload a narrow credential and a spending boundary. When only the usage-alert path fails, log a stable operation name, the required capability, ...

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UBS’s AML case shows why compliance automation needs independent validation to ensure complete transaction coverage and expose missing data.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing both enterprise technology and the cybersecurity landscape, creating new challenges around AI agents, plugins, skills and the attacks that can be generated with increasingly capable models. Against that backdrop, cybersecurity company Upwind has acquired AI security startup Aegis and launched Upwind AI Security Labs, as first reported by Axios . The initiative brings Aegis co-founders Omri Limor and Saar Ankonina into Upwind, where they will lead ...

George Santos’s permanent Kalshi ban shows how exchange discipline and federal enforcement can impose separate consequences for prediction market trades.

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