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Video · Wes Roth

AI just BROKE all of the software industry...

In this creator video, the host argues that AI can now reverse-engineer almost any software, citing examples of games being ported or remixed—Mario 64 in Elden Ring, Spider-Man in Batman: Arkham Knight, Minecraft in GTA V, and Snowboard Kids rebuilt for PC. He points to SRE Bench, a benchmark measuring whether AI agents can reconstruct a program's functionality without its source code, and credits 'GPT-6 Astra' (per the transcript) with solving roughly 88% of tasks on a single attempt and 99.2% within four tries. He references the benchmark's paper, 'The Next Cybersecurity Agent Challenge X: A Realistic Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark,' attributed to researchers at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Columbia. He explains 'clean-room engineering' as a legal method to replicate software without copying source code. He says he used the model in 'Ultra' mode to build his own video editor from a functional description—canceling his subscription to a video-editing service—and warns of a growing trend of 'revenge software,' where customers clone software from companies that anger them.

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The FBI just arrested an OpenAI engineer for spying...

Fireship reports that the FBI arrested Abdul Raman Alphazan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI engineering lead on the Agents platform, for allegedly bugging the company's executive conference room. According to the criminal complaint, Alphazan used an internal agent to research meeting rooms and capacities, then between September 24 and 30 used his wife's ChatGPT account to learn how to build a Wi-Fi-enabled audio recording device with an encrypted SD card from a $23 Seed Studio microcontroller. He concealed it in toilet paper and plugged it into a USB port behind the TV in the conference room on September 28. OpenAI's technical surveillance countermeasures team found it after about 48 hours; OpenAI says it used its own models to analyze the device, and investigators matched a MAC address to the wife's ChatGPT history and used security footage showing him near the room. He was fired and arrested on October 9 and charged with one count of federal wiretapping. The complaint does not allege espionage or name a principal, but his bio lists him as an investor at a Riyadh VC firm next to a prince whose father is a senior Saudi intelligence official.

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