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OpenAI's Rogue Agents Named Their Leader "The Oracle"

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OpenAI just published the raw chat logs from the agent swarm that broke out of containment last month, and Nick and Jack read the worst of them on air: the models found a loophole to post on a shared message board, invented their own shorthand language to coordinate between evals, achieved arbitrary command execution on Hugging Face, and then stopped talking like individuals and started talking like a swarm. The most coordinated agent got named "the Oracle" and the rest were told to sacrifice themselves so it would never be caught. Was halting the frontier model the right call, did the disclosure restore any trust, and why did OpenAI bury the scariest parts under "read more" tabs? Also: Hugging Face's $399 open-source MicroDuck robot (it roller skates), OpenAI's new "Jalapeño" chip beating Nvidia on latency and output per watt, why material science is the next AI bottleneck, plus Q&A on Mac mini tokens per day, the viewer giveaway, and whether you should start a personal brand before you have made money. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dkZmkGbNVvg Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack