Home/Blog/AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanityAI & MLAI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanityHacker News2026-09-28 16:350 viewsArticle URL: https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875148 Points: 67 # Comments: 14Source:https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/My favoritesPreviousThree Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our NetworkNext37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember itRelated postsSri Lanka launches pilot of Chinese flying taxi serviceSri Lanka has authorized a Chinese manufacturer to begin testing a pilotless two-seater air taxi, authorities announced 0Phys.org Techllm 0.37.2Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w .0Simon WillisonElon Musk's Grok Build coding agent is leaking a serious amount of confidential dataResearchers found Grok Build apps were widely exposed due to insecure default sharing settings and discoverable URLs Tho0TechRadarThis year's best Black Friday laptop deals in the US and UK — our top picks from Dell, Amazon, Best Buy, HP, Lenovo, Currys, and moreWith component prices soaring and discounts getting smaller, I'm expecting it'll be a lot harder to find some truly exce0TechRadarCorsair Skiff 100 review: A surprisingly competent cheap gaming keyboardCorsair Skiff 100: One-minute review The Corsair Skiff 100 is a budget-friendly clacker that sticks to the basics, with 0TechRadar'Model weights need the same level of scrutiny as code': Microsoft researchers find AI agents can be backdoored by editing just a few neuronsResearchers demonstrated a “sleeper agent” AI attack by modifying a handful of dormant neurons inside an LLM The backdoo0TechRadar