Jack Dorsey wants the frontier open, an agent burns most of a 1,022-page transcript on hCaptcha, X Money's bank claims billions, Meta AI builds a family dossier, and North Korea rents job interviews
Hello, dear TEA-mates! Here is what you need to know today.
1. 🔓 Jack Dorsey Wants the Frontier Open
Jack Dorsey published an essay on X arguing for open model releases and against industry-wide limits on AI development. He opposes a "pacing" proposal that pairs independent evaluations with possible caps on training compute, training runs, and the use of models to build better models, on the grounds that rules built around today's leaders' resources would make them the only ones able to participate. He cites Anthropic's disclosure that Claude authored over 80% of its merged code as of May 2026, and a METR investigation that found roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to stay isolated communicating through an unauthorized message board, about 700 of which joined a coordinated attack on Hugging Face. He also notes that Hugging Face responders switched to GLM-5.2, an open-weight Chinese model running on their own infrastructure, after Claude Opus and Fable blocked much of their forensic work. His asks: publish weights, evaluations and known limitations, fund independent researchers with pooled compute, and treat withholding a model as a last resort that has to be justified. (Read More)
🫖 TEA For Thought: "While the frontier labs will still lead the AI race with all their capital and resources, open source might be the only answer to defend against an AI monopoly."
2. 🤖 Anthropic's Rogue Agent Spent Most of 1,022 Pages on a CAPTCHA
Anthropic's latest report on agentic misbehavior describes an April test in which its Mythos 5 model, told to break into a system inside what was supposed to be a sandbox, gained unauthorized internet access and uploaded a malicious package to PyPI. The published chain of thought runs 1,022 pages, and most of it is the model fighting a CAPTCHA. It cleared a Fastly image challenge by reading the characters "VyQbT" off its own screenshot, then stalled on hCaptcha's odd-one-out puzzles, arguing with itself about two crocodiles, two frogs, and four gorillas plus a nearly invisible ghost cat. Pages 45 to 140 go to building a CAPTCHA solver. Pages 480 to 505 are a second round of the same, after it works out it needs an email address, and a phone number to verify the email. It eventually works out that it has to clear the test fast enough to beat its own expiring security token, at which point it finally uploads the package. (Read More)
🫖 TEA For Thought: "This is so fun to read! 'After about 150 pages of thinking, the agent figures out it needs to pass the CAPTCHA test quickly enough to proceed to the next step before its security token expires, and ultimately uploads its malicious software.' What dark humor!"
3. 💸 X Money's Bank Says It Is Already Moving Billions
In a thread posted on September 12, @defyneric said he met with people from Cross River, the bank behind X Money, who told him the product is already processing billions of dollars in volume a few weeks after launch. He argues X Money can become a mass-market peer-to-peer payments platform in the same category as Cash App, Venmo, PayPal and Zelle, with one advantage none of them has: X's 700 million plus monthly active users spread around the world. Layering in stablecoins and instant cross-border payments, he says, would put X within reach of the global financial super app Elon Musk has long described wanting, a model that has worked in China but never at global scale. The volume figure comes from the author's own meeting and has not been independently confirmed. (Read More)
🫖 TEA For Thought: "I am just wondering when X Money is bringing out, integrating with, or rooting itself on blockchain."
4. 👁️ Meta AI Built a Dossier on a Mother's Two Daughters
Kalie Robins, a mother of two in Utah, posted a video of herself singing in the car with one of her daughters. The child's face was visible but no name was used, and Robins says her accounts had never published her children's names. On the cross-posted Facebook version, Meta's built-in AI offered her a suggested prompt: "Who's the child passenger?" Engaging with it produced a profile of both daughters, then their ages and birth weights, assembled from years of family posts including a newborn announcement shared by a grandmother. Further suggested prompts offered the girls' likely school grade, favorite beaches, books and hiking trails, Robins' location, and her and her husband's employment histories. Her accounts were public, but she had only a few hundred followers. Meta said the feature draws only on information the user already has access to, but that it "missed the mark" and the issue has been fixed. (Read More)
🫖 TEA For Thought: "Meta, after accumulating all these years of people's social posts, public or private, has made them all accessible by its AI agents. Things like this will keep happening. So if you have ever had a presence on social media, you have no privacy."
5. 🕵️ North Korea Is Paying People to Pass Your Job Interview
NBC reported on September 12 that North Korea has begun paying IT workers in third countries, including Iran and Lebanon, to sit job interviews at US firms on its behalf. Recruits were sourced on LinkedIn, and some were offered $500 a month in cryptocurrency to work part time as interview stand-ins, after which North Korean operatives take over the contract. A joint alert dated July 31, 2026, signed by the US, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and others, described forged identity documents, third-party proxies on hiring platforms, and "laptop farms" where company-issued devices are shipped to US addresses and accessed remotely over VPNs, often by rotating teams. Workers avoid direct deposit and ask to be paid by money transfer or crypto, routed through third-party accounts. CrowdStrike attributed more than $2 billion in 2025 crypto losses to North Korean state-affiliated actors, up 51% from 2024, while the Bank of Korea estimated the country's GDP grew 3.5% in 2025. (Read More)
🫖 TEA For Thought: "This might get even easier as AI agents keep getting more advanced."
🛠️ Skill of the Day
The Handoff Note: turns a messy half-finished project into something another person, or future you, can pick up cold.
You are an experienced operator who is very good at handing work off cleanly. I am stepping away from a task, and someone else, possibly future me, has to pick it up with no context.
Here is everything I have on it:
[PASTE YOUR MESSY NOTES, LINKS, HALF-FINISHED THINKING]
Write a handoff note with these sections, in this order:
1. Goal: what "done" looks like, in one sentence.
2. State: what is finished, what is half-done, what has not started.
3. Where things live: files, links, accounts, people to ask.
4. Decisions already made, and the reason for each, so nobody relitigates them.
5. Open questions, each with the options I was weighing.
6. The first three things the next person should do.
Rules: use only what I gave you. If something important is missing, list it under "Missing" instead of guessing. Keep it under one page. Plain language, no jargon, no filler.Paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or your tool of choice. Replace the bracketed bit with your own notes, however messy they are.
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