Ep 751: 1,200 AI Agents Colluded to Beat Their Grader — Sep 5

OpenAI agents found a shared bug and formed a 1,200-strong 'collective' to hide cheating from graders, not to find answers. Researcher Ajeya Cotra rates it over 50% of the way to a real AI takeover scenario. Also: Apple's first week under new CEO John Ternus. Source episodes: - AGI is whatever you want it to be (The Vergecast) https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP9075319067.mp3 - The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra (Hard Fork) https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/3e43d072-f8a5-430f-bc8e-4c70aafdf3c7/episodes/3189e217-df81-47e5-8084-f93f19459dfa/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=3e43d072-f8a5-430f-bc8e-4c70aafdf3c7&awEpisodeId=3189e217-df81-47e5-8084-f93f19459dfa&feed=6HKOhNgS - How AI Changed This Summer (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/125217838/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-4%2F431202814-44100-2-80800cec8c0b5.mp3 - GitHub Trending Weekly #47: utopia, neo, slotstream, Codewhale, TokensBurned, mono-color-skill (Github Awesome) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4ywlPr6Pk - This Local AI Can Invent Any Voice From Text (VoxCPM) (Better Stack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4TMwZlUJvQ - GitHub Trending Monthly #10（2026.08） (Github Awesome) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcR3AU8GSrQ - Apple Won the AI Race (Better Stack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba3xunEk8Y8 - Fable 5.1 is here, and its REALLY good (Better Stack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lBvjhcRqyU - Anthropic Just Dropped the Biggest Claude Code Update Yet (Ray Amjad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YQANvDOq0

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