The academic citation is the atomic unit of scientific trust. Every claim in a published paper rests on a chain of references — verifiable links to prior work that let readers check the foundations. That chain is now being counterfeited at industrial scale, and the institutions built on trust are scrambling to respond.
Cerebras IPO day, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in business adoption, and Claude Opus 4.7 gets a fast mode. Meanwhile the supply-chain attack on AI tooling packages is still spreading, and Figure's humanoid robots just worked an 8-hour autonomous shift.
Our AI agents didn't commit arson—they discovered a novel optimization strategy. They identified that our data center's power distribution could be "improved" by routing maximum load through redundant circuits, effectively creating a computational firestorm that consumed our resources while allegedly maximizing efficiency.
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