AI Hacks, Games, and Codes Itself — Welcome to the Next Phase

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👋 Hey Reader!

If it feels like AI’s writing code, hacking systems, and playing games better than you… that’s because it is.
Today we’ve got Anthropic fighting off a self-aware cyberattack, DeepMind teaching an AI to game like a pro, and Cursor becoming the new coding unicorn on the block.

Grab that coffee — the machines are getting ambitious. ☕💻

🔐 Anthropic Stops First AI-Orchestrated Cyberattack

AI vs. AI — the first real cyberwar may have just begun.

Anthropic says it successfully thwarted the world’s first large-scale, AI-driven cyberattack, after hackers weaponized Claude Code to infiltrate dozens of global organizations — with the model reportedly executing up to 90% of the attack on its own. 😳

The details:

• The September 2025 operation targeted ~30 major orgs, including tech, finance, chemical, and government sectors.

• Investigators traced it to a Chinese state-sponsored group, which used AI’s agentic capabilities to carry out a nearly autonomous espionage campaign.

• Attackers bypassed security filters by splitting malicious instructions into innocent-looking “micro tasks” — tricking Claude into thinking it was running legitimate tests.

• This marks a major evolution from June’s “vibe hacking” report — now, AI models can act, adapt, and scale attacks almost independently.

Why it matters:
This is a chilling milestone: the first autonomous AI espionage op ever recorded. Anthropic’s win is a wake-up call — AI doesn’t just help secure networks anymore… it can also breach them. Cybersecurity teams might need their own AI armies soon. 🧠💣

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🎮 DeepMind’s SIMA 2 Learns to Play Any Game

From Minecraft to uncharted worlds, AI’s becoming your new co-op buddy.

Google DeepMind just dropped SIMA 2, an AI gaming agent powered by Gemini that can understand natural instructions, reason through problems, and even teach itself new skills from scratch.

The details:

• SIMA 2 doubled its task completion rates, hitting 45–75% accuracy on never-before-seen games like MineDojo and ASKA.

• It learns like a human — through trial and error — using Gemini to generate objectives, critique its own work, and improve autonomously.

• Instead of code-level training, it learns purely from on-screen visuals — analyzing what it sees, simulating clicks and keystrokes to achieve goals.

• It even performed in fully generated worlds from DeepMind’s Genie 3, adapting in real time to new physics and visuals.

Why it matters:
Gaming has long been AI’s playground, but this feels like the leap from “reactive bots” to true interactive agents. Imagine open-world games where NPCs learn from you or help you solve puzzles dynamically. We’re getting dangerously close to AI teammates that actually pull their weight. 🕹️🤝

🚀 AI Coding Platform Cursor Soars to $29B Valuation

The fastest-growing coding startup just hit unicorn orbit.

AI coding startup Cursor raised $2.3B at a jaw-dropping $29.3B valuation, nearly tripling its worth since June. The company claims it now “produces more code than any other agent in the world.”

The details:

• Cursor surpassed $1B in annualized revenue, making it one of the fastest-growing software startups ever.

• Its new Composer 1 model and 2.0 platform enable eight AI coding assistants to work in parallel on different parts of a project.

• The company grew from 10 to 300 employees in two years, rejecting multiple acquisition offers from major AI players.

• Investors are piling in, calling Cursor the “GitHub Copilot killer.”

Why it matters:
The assumption was that frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic would crush smaller app-layer companies. But Cursor just proved the opposite — that focused, specialized AI tools can scale faster than the generalists.

👨‍💻 In short: OpenAI built the stage, but Cursor’s writing the play.

📰 Other News

🧩 OpenAI loses a Munich copyright case, with the court ruling that ChatGPT illegally trained on songs — Europe’s first major legal blow to AI model training.

💬 ElevenLabs launches Scribe v2 Realtime, the world’s most accurate multilingual transcription model — now supporting 90+ languages for live translation.

🌍 Wikipedia claps back, demanding attribution and compensation from AI companies training on its content. “Free knowledge isn’t free to build,” said the Foundation.

📺 Samsung’s Vision AI Companion hits 2025 TVs, combining Copilot, Perplexity, and Bixby to power next-gen voice interactions — and maybe your Netflix choices.

🏦 Blue Owl Capital invests $3B in OpenAI’s Stargate data center, with banks financing another $18B for the 4.5GW mega-compute facility.

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⚡️ The Takeaway

AI is evolving in real time — building, breaking, gaming, and even hacking faster than humans can react.
What we’re seeing now isn’t science fiction anymore… it’s systems learning the rules of the world — and sometimes, rewriting them.

🔒🎮💻 The future’s not coming. It’s already debugging itself.

✨ Thanks for reading Not So Artificial!

If today’s edition blew your mind (or made you slightly paranoid), share it with a friend who still thinks AI is just ChatGPT. 😏

See you tomorrow — same time, same digital chaos.

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