$10 Million for an Airline's Entire Memory
At a bankruptcy auction, Google bid $10 million for 600 million Spirit Airlines employee emails and chat messages to train AI, and more than 100 members of Congress want it stopped. The public …
Yongjie Xue · Full Stack & AI Engineer · Austin, TX
Yongjie Xue
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Based in Austin, Texas. Writing about distributed systems, databases, AI agents, and architecture.
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Copilot Goes Into the Sandbox: Don't Bet Agent Security on the Model's Good Behavior
GitHub Copilot's local sandbox went GA today. The real news isn't "another sandbox" — it's three decouplings: the sandbox from the model, the engine from the product, and the policy from the …
Nobody Gave a Number: Big AI Testifies Under Oath in New York
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath before the New York City Council, and none of them would put a number on worst-case catastrophic risk. An industry that cannot give a number …
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