AI News

October 30, 2025

Spooky Edition!

• GitHub posted a blog article with more details about their "Agent HQ" plan for AI agents, but I don't see any new details about how to programmatically initiate an AI agent workflow in it: Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
• In a weird one, researchers at Anthropic experimented on Claude to see if it could recognize when they gave it "intrusive thoughts", and sometimes it did: Anthropic scientists hacked Claude’s brain — and it noticed. Here’s why that’s huge
• I listened to this review of the new book warning against AI superintelligence, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. On YouTube: POV: What You Would See During an AI Takeover. It features an AI that gains superintelligence on accident and then does a bunch of dastardly deeds to survive and then eventually it kills everyone. The common denominator in these stories that I don't quite understand yet is why does the superintelligent AI become a boogeyman instead of a buddha?