The good thing about knowing where you stand & what you believe in is, you don't have to worry about finding yourself in a place you'll regret later. I'll be with America, the Constitution, our institutions, our allies, our society & civilization. You do you.

The Left would hate this.

is this a Make-A-Wish situation?

Attendance: 49.104. The Dodgers have the biggest seating capacity in MLB, but have failed to sell out any of their four postseason games at Dodger Stadium

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia’s legal résumé took another hit as a partner at the Chinese law firm she lists on her LinkedIn profile clarified that her job there was likely “similar to a paid internship.” rawstory.com/katie-zacharia-…

🚨 BRAKING 🚨 Donald Trump has just fired Kimberly Guilfoyle, America’s Ambassador to Italy This is incredibly illegal as she has diplomatic immunity, so I hope she sues

🚨Anthropic Frontier Red Team warns: “We’re seeing signs of life for AI worms” >paper: "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter" >researchers buy 15 sketchy $55 android TV boxes >link them over unauthenticated ADB ports >the TV boxes have 4gb of RAM each and run unpatched Android Open Source Project forks >shard gemma4-26b across the ram sticks using pipeline parallelism >gemma figures out how to run inference across all 15 TVs @ 0.39 tokens/sec >qwen 3.5 9b figures out how to compile inference on 8 of 9 novel hardware types on its own >glm 5.2 achieves end-to-end autonomous worm replication >infects edge devices, compiles its own inference stack, and replicates autonomously >when an instance dies, it writes debugging notes into Memento for the next generation >daughter copies setup success jumps from 45% -> 84% across generations >pure Lamarckian evolution inside consumer electronics >smart oven, robot vacuum, and cheap TVs form a decentralized botnet >two million infected TV boxes worldwide = 40 H100 equivalents of unkillable compute >it replicates once every few days like a distributed “digital slime mold” >you can't pull the plug because half the model weights are already sharded across the neighborhood >sub-30B models projected to hit full autonomous replication threshold by late 2026 “We should aim to harden our systems… but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay.”

Satya is right. The way to make SI safe is not to train it with a sense of self, its own moral philosophy, and permission to act as a conscientious objector. That’s the “alignment” approach and it magnifies the control problem. The engineering approach that Satya describes is different: separate the supply of intelligence from authority over it. Surround non-deterministic models with deterministic controls, observability, privilege limits, logging, and the ability to always contain or shut them down. Treat models/agents like powerful insider risks, not moral patients whose psychological wellbeing is at stake. As Satya points out, the most trustworthy system is the one that lets us trust the model the least — not the one that encourages the model to develop independent agency and grievances. Engineering safety is not the same thing as “alignment.”

Everybody’s missing Tao’s whole point. Imagine an AI-generated cancer drug that’s specifically designed to game the drug trial process. The drug makes the cancer cells go dormant and changes the way they appear in blood tests and diagnostic imaging, such that they become indistinguishable from healthy tissue. The drug clears the trial and then only much later do we find out it didn’t work. It probably was also harmful on top of that. We *already* see AI behave like that when confronted with difficult programming/hacking challenges. This is already reality.

I have immense respect for @terrence_tao, but this might be the single worst example he could have chosen. The historical approach to treating cancer was "let's give them some poison and see if it kills cancer cells faster than other cells". And while we've made tremendous advances in understanding anti-cancer drugs' mechanisms and in developing a more rational approach to the process, there are therapies we've been using for decades where we don't really understand how or why they work.

If AI labs want personal assistants to take off at scale, they need to stop marketing vacations, reservations, party planning, etc. These are not problems. Focus on *the* problem facing Americans: the cost of living. Agents can offer a ton of help. Some ideas: (🧵)

Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…

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