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The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread) theintercept.com/2026/09/08/…

The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No

The U.S. military’s desire for an AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” was revealed through a FOIA lawsuit filed by The Intercept.

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New York Magazine
@NYMag
Sep 26
YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and (sigh) X have all reportedly rejected the ‘Musk’ trailer as a paid ad. Bleecker Street, the film’s distributor, is appealing. vulture.com/article/youtube-…

Major Social Media Platforms Rejecte Ads for Musk

YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and (sigh) X don’t want the smoke.

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Rachel Karten
@milkkarten
Sep 25
i personally think it’s bad that social media platforms are encouraging ai influencers that sell pump and dump meme coins!
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It's been a big week for investigations. I hope you'll take the time to read the fruits of @theintercept's months-long reporting work on a newly reopened ICE detention center in Leavenworth, KS—a former federal prison with a violent history.
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It's publication day for Valley of Death. Come for the history of Steve Jobs and the CIA. Stay to learn why the Pentagon commissioned a study about whether a rogue billionaire would build and sell nukes. And find out what happens when powerful weapons move into private hands. amazon.com/Valley-Death-Tech…

Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp. These tech titans are fast becoming some of the most powerful figures in the realm of national security, with enormous implications for us all. As Sharon...

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They represent two wings of the same political faction.
austerity is theft@wideofthepost
Sep 22
They’re both so mad right now.
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having a copy of the actual check used to bribe a Senator is some of the craziest shit I’ve ever seen
Molly Redden@mtredden
Sep 22
Replying to @mtredden
“You’ve seen me deliver.” That’s what Collins told Kao, he said, as her staff pressured him to up his donations. Kao wound up giving the Collins super PAC $150,000 in late 2019. Weeks later, according to an email, Collins’ office agreed to support $32m in new Navatek projects.
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Terms like "fancy autocomplete" were reductive sure but I think were also making the very important corrective point that AI is, as Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor have so eloquently put it, a normal technology, and not The Temporal Instantiation of the Machine God
Jack Clark
@jackclarkSF
Sep 20
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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j aubrey 🤠@jaubreyYT
Sep 20
Imagine showing this image to someone in 2017.
Department of War 🇺🇸
@DeptofWar
Sep 20
Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.
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very late to finally reading this but it was as good as everyone said
Daniel Lefferts@daniel_lefferts
Feb 16
I have a short story in the Yale Review! It’s got everything: evil gays, Florida, credit card points, bloodshed. Thank you to Clare Sestanovich for the excellent edits. Enjoy 🔪 yalereview.org/article/danie…
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Two years after Israel's pager attacks in Lebanon, teenage survivor rebuilds his life reut.rs/4j9U2vE 📸 Zohra Bensemra
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These are precisely the scenarios that I spend a significant time actually being concerned with. The adoption of unreliable, brittle, and inaccurate LLMs within safety-critical fields (e.g., defense and nuclear) is not only a concrete risk, but has catastrophic consequences.
Zachary Cohen@ZcohenCNN
Sep 18
Replying to @ZcohenCNN
The AI-assisted intelligence report was “entirely false,” per 1 of the sources. But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the 2 nations. cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say |...

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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This sort of thing strikes me as an orders of magnitude more likely source of catastrophic death than "rogue agents"
Zachary Cohen@ZcohenCNN
Sep 18
Replying to @ZcohenCNN
The AI-assisted intelligence report was “entirely false,” per 1 of the sources. But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the 2 nations. cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say |...

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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LLMs are undeniably powerful, and that power could be dangerous, but there's also a huge degree of danger (particularly in a military context) posed by being overly confident in their outputs. A war between the US and China really could end humanity
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David Hill@davehill77
Sep 18
I believe in these lads nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world…

Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?

The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.

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The court filing dug up by @jason_kint is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life 404media.co/doom-loop-openai…

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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good things are still possible
National Geographic
@NatGeo
Sep 17
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
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this might be the last one though
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In this essay, a former U.S. government official knocks Chinese government officials for seeking to gain a competitive advantage over the U.S., and then warns that the U.S. must not lose its competitive advantage over China. nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…

Opinion | I Led A.I. Diplomacy for the U.S. The Coming Safety Talks Will Not Save Us.

Even if Beijing now takes the risks of A.I. seriously, the message has not reached its domestic companies.

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Jay Alto
@theJayAlto
Sep 16
"an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device." "an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device." "are you getting it?"
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A forceful message that will resonate with potentially dozens of voters
Department of War CTO
@DoWCTO
Sep 16
The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸
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