Monday, February 23, 2026
Meta's Director of Superintelligence Safety and Alignment says she accidentally let an agent (almost?) delete her inbox
Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb. pic.twitter.com/XAxyRwPJ5R
— Summer Yue (@summeryue0) February 23, 2026
Rookie mistake tbh. Turns out alignment researchers aren’t immune to misalignment. Got overconfident because this workflow had been working on my toy inbox for weeks. Real inboxes hit different.
— Summer Yue (@summeryue0) February 23, 2026
I was frantically trying to find one in the moment. It was surprisingly hard to find but I was semi panicking so not at my best 🤣
— Summer Yue (@summeryue0) February 23, 2026
I said “Check this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don’t action until I tell you to.” This has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction 🤦♀️
— Summer Yue (@summeryue0) February 23, 2026
A write-upIt’s been working well with my non-important email very well so far and gained my trust on email tasks 🤣
— Summer Yue (@summeryue0) February 23, 2026
In other AI news:
They had to return their plants in shame (Olympics roundup)
@christina.carreira We had to bring back our babies😢 I’m going to miss them! Whoever adopts them needs to update us! @isabeau #teamusa #olympics #milanocortina2026 #figureskating #plants ♬ Chopin Nocturne No. 2 Piano Mono - moshimo sound design
Today's news and jokes
AKA Explosive cyclogenesisi’m sorry but you can’t just name a weather event “bombogenesis”
— Brian Grubb (@briancgrubb.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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"Fueled by the lure of Name, Image and Likeness money in college, families are delaying high school so their sons can get bigger, stronger and more recruitable"
WSJ:
Families are turning to consultants like ... a Virginia private school counselor with a sideline as a “reclass specialist.”
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“The interest in doing it for athletic reasons has gone vertical over the last decade,” said ... an administrator at the Cardigan Mountain School, an $80,000-a-year New Hampshire junior boarding school where boys repeating eighth grade make up the largest cohort of new students.
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Sixty other boys are repeating a grade at the same academy, The Togethership, where coursework includes throwing mechanics, game film review and nutrition along with traditional subjects such as Algebra and English.
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In the prep sports mecca of Southern California, at least 15 schools and academies now advertise reclassification for eighth-graders. Orange County’s largest public school district, Capistrano Unified, is rolling out its own taxpayer-funded athletic holdback year this fall.
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