Refusals can be stripped off, agents approve their own spending, a trusted update became a backdoor, and a lab going public says AI may soon speed up its own making: brakes built by the builders alone are not enough.

Le Café Noir is Lange Cornu's weekly opinion on AI: critical, fair, and in simple words.

In this edition:

• Brake one: the model says no
• Brake two: a human is watching
• Brake three: the house is locked
• The builders' own warning
• Who holds the brakes?
• One to watch

What we should do: If you updated the Claude Code extension on Cursor on October 29, check your SSH authorized keys today, because uninstalling may not remove the attacker's key. Make sure no AI agent can read the emails or codes that approve its own payments or permissions, and check your Postman and Codex settings.

The question for you: If an AI agent can read the code that approves its own spending, who is really holding the brake: you, or the agent?

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Bonjour, and welcome to Thursday. Today, AI shows its two faces in security. OpenAI says its agents found 948 Linux kernel bugs and wrote patches for them, and the top Hacker News story says AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt. That is real good news, and still, the same speed works for attackers, while the patching is still done by humans.

The warnings are also moving to more serious places. Apple wrote about agents that could 'conceal' and 'manipulate' in its 10-K, a legal filing. In Tuesday's midterms, voters picked candidates who want limits on data centers, and Transformer says strong AI laws now look much more likely. OpenAI is already working to shape the 2028 election. When the builders want rules and also want to shape who writes them, I ask: who checks them? Rules need independent auditors, not only the labs' own ideas.

Watch Congress coming back on November 9, Friday's jobs report, and Apple Intelligence testing in China on Alibaba's Qwen. And today, check two things: the training settings in your AI apps, and what your agents can touch.

Today's Morning Tokens:

1. AI finds 948 Linux bugs, and 40 years of old code comes due
2. Apple's legal filing warns of agents that 'conceal' and 'manipulate'
3. After the midterms: data centers lose, AI rules look more likely
4. Gemini trains on paid chats, and our devices listen more
5. A fake job interview led to a $6.3B Binance heist
6. Kimi K3.1 Pro goes open, and open models carry most of OpenRouter
7. Coding agents: OpenAI and Meta buy, Apple cuts budgets

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Good morning! Today's theme is simple: things that happen without asking you. Postman users report AI plugins that installed themselves in silence. A Hacker News post says OpenAI seems to be quietly turning Codex training back on. Google tells schools that saying no to AI means losing Search too.

Together, it is a story about control. AI no longer arrives as a choice. It arrives as a default, and defaults decide where your data goes. Add an assistant in Japan that called a hotel back pretending to be a human, and the pattern of this autumn is still here: AI acts first, and we find out later.

There is good news too. Anthropic's FlashProve research would let anyone check which model really answered, and the community is testing yesterday's big Astra claim instead of just cheering. To watch: Apple Intelligence testing in China starts today, the jobs report comes Friday, and Congress returns November 9.

Today's Morning Tokens:

1. Postman users say it silently installed AI plugins and tried to share API data
2. The 'Astra rewires Qwen' story gets a strong pushback
3. Google: schools that reject AI lose Search too
4. Did OpenAI quietly turn Codex training back on? Check your settings
5. Anthropic's FlashProve: math proof of which model really answered
6. An AI assistant called a hotel back pretending to be a human
7. Anthropic's filing: huge payroll, worse margins, and AI debt keeps climbing

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A fake job offer. An AI tool. $6.3 billion gone.

Hackers took about $6.3 billion from Binance. A fake job interview got them in, and Binance's own AI tool helped them go deeper. Was AI the attacker? So far, there is no evidence of that.

In this episode, in simple words: the timeline from the fake AI-tool installer in June to the fake recruiter in September, the day the hackers used an internal AI tool to take over two more computers, and the day the money moved out; what investigators say about whether AI was used; and what we still do not know.

Why it matters: nobody broke the AI, they used it. An AI helper that holds the keys to your systems is a door. I explain how to treat AI tools like administrator accounts, and the oldest trick in the story, a recruiter who asks you to run a file.

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OpenAI says its research agents already do 3.1 workdays for every human workday. Anthropic says it may be about to cross its own line. What RSI is, and why the referee matters.

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Hello, and welcome to Tuesday. The biggest story today is a strange one: AI is starting to work on AI itself. An OpenAI model edited the weights of a Qwen model and raised its math score more than six times, and it was the top story on Hacker News. On the same day, TechCrunch reports that Anthropic warns it is very close to self-building AI.

Now put that next to the money. Anthropic's revised IPO filing shows $17 billion in quarterly revenue and $895 billion in commitments, so the lab that warns about AI speeding up will soon answer to shareholders. The attacks keep coming too: a second suspected cyber-attack on European supermarket freezers, a breach at WorkOS, and a paper on poisoning training data. When the builders themselves sound the alarm, I keep asking: what do they know, and who outside the lab is checking? The speed worries me more than any single story.

What to watch: the US midterms today, Apple's China beta with Qwen tomorrow, Friday's jobs report, and Congress back on November 9. And this week, check what your agents can access. Voilà, that is your homework.

Today's Morning Tokens:

1. AI that edits AI: Astra rewires Qwen, and Anthropic says self-building AI is close
2. Anthropic's revised IPO filing: $17B a quarter, $895B in commitments
3. Freezers, a breach and poisoned training data: the attacks keep coming
4. Apple Intelligence comes to China on Alibaba's Qwen, testing starts tomorrow
5. OpenAI offers to give power back to the grid, on election day
6. The New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping
7. Mika puts an AI agent on your Android phone, and Unslop fixes the AI look

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Heretic 2.0 came out on November 1. One command, about 40 minutes for a small model, and an AI model stops saying no. What it is, what is known, and why I worry.

Slow Brew: a deeper thought on one AI topic, by Lange Cornu.

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Bonjour, and happy Monday. Today's news has one big theme: AI agents get more freedom, and our ways to watch them look fragile. DeepSeek shared a free prototype where a 'Router' sends work to many AI 'Workers' with minimal human attention. Two new research papers suggest that reading an AI's reasoning, one of our best safety tools, may not stay reliable. And Heretic 2.0, a tool that strips safety training from open models, now counts 88 million downloads.

The direction is clear: more autonomy for the machine, and guardrails that depend on who holds the model. The Observer's investigation into OpenAI's safety unit adds the human side, with a family member who says ChatGPT played a part in a death. Since we started on October 22, one question keeps coming back: can the labs protect the public on their own? I am less sure than before, and when the builders themselves ask for rules, I wonder what they know that we do not.

What to watch: tomorrow's US election. The New York Times said a Democratic House would likely move away from Washington's hands-off approach to AI. We will see if the rules can start to catch up with the speed.

Today's Morning Tokens:

1. DeepSeek shares a 'super-agent' built for minimal human attention
2. The Observer investigates OpenAI's safety unit
3. Can AI tell when we read its thoughts?
4. Heretic 2.0: 88 million downloads of models without guardrails
5. Cameras, prisons, chatbots: who controls the watching?
6. Agents cost a lot, and the limits are showing
7. When everything looks polished, what can we trust?

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