Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
1X Neo Humanoid Robot for Housework vs Reality
October 29th, 20251X is trying to summon the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field… It’s not going well.
AI Has a Cargo Cult Problem
October 17th, 2025Via: Financial Times: Is it just a Ponzi scheme? That is the question that currently haunts American tech — and wider markets — as the valuation of artificial intelligence-linked groups soars to evermore eye-popping heights. Indeed, calculations by the FT suggests that ten lossmaking AI start-ups — such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI […]
Israel Paying US Social Media Influencers $7,000 Per Post
October 1st, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in New York on Friday with a group of pro-Israel influencers, we learn that Israel is likely paying them a whopping $7,000 per pro-Israel social-media post in a desperate drive to bolster plummeting support of Israel among America’s young conservatives. That’s the conclusion of Responsible Statecraft’s […]
U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine: Trump Has Indicated That Kyiv Should Now Be Able To Conduct Long-Range Strikes On Russia
September 29th, 2025Now that Europe is paying for U.S. weapons that are headed to Ukraine… Via: Daily Mail: Donald Trump has indicated that Ukraine can conduct long-range strikes into Russia, according to America’s envoy to Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky has long asked the US to provide long-range missiles capable of hitting Russian soil as a way to take […]
The End of Critical Thinking in the Classroom
September 5th, 2025Via: The Atlantic: AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson […]
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
September 3rd, 2025Via: Public Health Policy Journal: A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, […]
Mass Vehicle Surveillance in the U.S.
September 1st, 2025Via: Benn Jordan:
Mercenaries to Rebuild Ukraine’s Front-Line Defenses, New Bases and Protect U.S. Businesses?
August 30th, 2025Via: Telegraph: Front-line fortifications and bases nearby could be built by American private military contractors as was done in Iraq and Afghanistan. … The White House remains opposed to deploying its own troops to Ukraine, but has agreed to broad support to European forces being used to underpin any peace deal. A Whitehall source said […]
U.S. Treasury Warns Of $312 Billion Chinese Laundering Dark-Money Network For Mexican Cartels
August 30th, 2025Let me guess: Average people are going to locked down, tracked and surveilled even harder in order to deal with this… Via: ZeroHedge: The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a warning on Thursday that Chinese money laundering networks (CMLNs) pose a substantial threat to the U.S. financial system, citing money laundering by […]
Starsage: U.S. Fighter Pilots Test AI “Air Battle Manager” Voice Assistant
August 27th, 2025Via: Fox: For the first time, U.S. fighter pilots took direction from an AI “air battle manager” in a Pentagon test that could change how wars are fought in the skies. The Air Force and Navy ran the August test using Raft AI’s Starsage tactical control system on F-16s, F/A-18s and F-35s during a joint […]
