Reporter AJ English / bylines: Daily Beast, Slate, CNBC etc / on-air: NPR, Marketplace etc / ex: CNN, CBS / [email protected] / views expressed are my own
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Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
It’s beginning. No one and nothing is safe. Humans are stupid enough so that something catastrophic will have to happen before they act.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Trade policy, tariffs, AI and the Iran war are creating a perfect storm for the underemployed. There are fewer jobs available, employers are struggling to forecast what comes next and maintaining the status quo rather than shrinking or growing, and consumers’ purchasing power continues to erode.
That means your dollar isn’t going as far. For those already barely making ends meet, that can be the difference between getting by and falling behind. Ahead of the election, these pressures are particularly pronounced.
Here’s the latest for Al Jazeera English:
aljazeera.com/economy/2026/1…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
What Higgsfield is doing should be illegal, you should not be allowed to scam normal unaware users like this.
"Genjutsu Lite" is Wan 3.0.
"Genjutsu" is Seedance 2.5.
They rename other companies' models and sell them as their own. Here is every proof, from their own API docs
-> Genjutsu Lite = Wan 3.0
• Pricing: 480p $0.05 / 720p $0.10 / 1080p $0.20 per sec
• Out of 40+ models on their API, only ONE other has this exact pricing: Wan 3.0
• Resolutions: 480p / 720p / 1080p, same as Wan 3.0
• References: Lite takes 1 video + 8 images. Wan 3.0 takes 5 videos + 10 images. Lite is Wan 3.0 with a fixed prompt and settings locked
-> Genjutsu = Seedance 2.5
• Reference images: Genjutsu takes up to 30. Seedance 2.5 takes exactly 30. Wan caps at 10
• Video length: Genjutsu takes 4–30s. Seedance 2.5 is exactly 4–30s
• Price: $0.318 / $0.681 / $1.632 per sec, which is Seedance 2.5 video-edit pricing + ~20–30% markup
-> It's not just Genjutsu
• Cinema Studio 4.0: $0.2057 / $0.4623 per sec
• Seedance 2.5: $0.2056 / $0.4622 per sec
• That's Seedance 2.5 again
• "3.5x cheaper" isn't a breakthrough. They swapped Seedance 2.5 for Wan 3.0, a cheaper model, and called it "Lite"
• Real Wan is listed as alibaba/wan-3.0. The same model is sold as higgsfield/genjutsu-light
• They never tell you what's underneath
I have never seen such a big company being untruthful to their users outright like this.
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Things are moving so fast that everyone seems to have completely missed how insane it is that AI companies have been allowed to unleash agentic AI products with no regulatory guidelines.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
I do not want AI-generated summaries of my friends’ text messages. I can’t think of anything I want less, actually
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
here's a free AI idea that's actually good: instead of suggesting things to write that I never want to, how about iMessage asks me if I'm sure I want to send a message to a group chat that it's clearly not intended for
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Wrote about @Substack's Midterms hub that is prominently featured on everyone's homepage and has a barely-there disclosure that it is powered by @Polymarket (as opposed to polling data)
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Sure, Anthropic may have stolen all the world's intellectual property, destroyed the education system, incited mass layoffs among the corporate class, devalued all art and destroyed social trust but somehow they also managed to lose $80 billion in the first half of 2026
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Big crowd at the @OpenAI offices in NYC. We are here to demand a Freeze on AI!
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
a real piece of shit who has done nothing but harm to the world, helped meta spread COVID conspiracy nonsense, really evil man
Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan -- a longtime top adviser to Mark Zuckerberg -- is leaving the company after a decade and a half:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
AI has enormous potential but the speculation fueling its boom poses real risks. That $80B loss is largely on paper. Bigger danger is economy increasingly exposed to massive bets on future profits. We need sustainable growth, not another bubble where working people get fleeced.
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
? What the fuck does that mean? Is this legally binding or just some sort of key jingling for headlines
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
This is dark.
There’s something very funny and slightly terrifying about an AI company setting aside money to help people who might lose their jobs to AI.
“We’re sorry about your accounting career. Have you considered applying for our grant?”
Anthropic is proposing to put 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund. As the company gets more valuable, its board can contribute more.
The founders say they’ve also pledged 80% of their own equity. Credit where it’s due. That’s a serious commitment.
But what a potential economic loop.
Your job gets automated. The company that automated it gets more valuable. Its charitable fund gets richer. You apply for assistance.
I’m an M&A attorney. I spend all day asking who controls the money and what rights everyone else gets.
So yes, I like the part where humanity gets some upside.
Would love to know if we negotiated any voting rights.
Yesh.
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
anthropic.com/news/public-be…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Everything else aside, why would an uncle be responsible for where his niece and nephew go to college?
