Plus a rumored Anthropic model and a $5,000 AI hacking campaign.
From our library · 2026-10-19
Reverse engineering means working out how a finished program does something when you cannot see how it was written. A free tool called REA lets an AI coding agent do that tracing and report what it found, with evidence. Ten public projects now credit it, from old game rebuilds to a screen recorder. Only a few prove their work: one game rebuild matched the original on 3,205 test cases. Popularity, measured in stars, says little about accuracy.
What you can do: Treat an AI's explanation of how software works as a lead, not a verdict. Ask for its evidence, what it could not confirm, and a test.
News · 2026-10-20
The Information reports that Anthropic is readying a model said to better guess what users mean, with Google's Gemini 4 Carbon and a possible OpenAI Terra also expected. The report is paywalled and rests on one tester. None of the companies has confirmed anything, and no names or dates are public.
Read the sourceNews · 2026-10-19
Reuters reports that one hacker used commercially available AI agents to try more than 1,200 websites and break into over 100 organizations, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. A researcher estimates the cost at about $5,000. Whether any data was stolen is unknown, and the model attribution is the researcher's reading.
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