Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Anthropic Researcher: “The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade”
September 9th, 2026I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below. — Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026 Via: TechCrunch: An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears […]
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
September 9th, 2026Via: The American Prospect: Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence. In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on […]
Ukraine: Shooting Down Drones with a Rifle from Soviet-Era Open Cockpit Yak-52
September 2nd, 2026Via: The War Zone: The interception process involves the crew waiting close to their Yak-52 while awaiting the order to scramble. Once a Russian drone is spotted on air defense sensors, the Yak is normally airborne within 15 minutes. With no radar and apparently no other onboard sensors, the Yak-52 crew relies on radio commands […]
Strong Solar Storm Caused GPS Readings to Suddenly Veer Off by 33 Feet
September 1st, 2026Via: Futurism: As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists found that global navigation satellite systems experienced “significant positioning errors” of over 33 feet during the superstorm, “large enough to disrupt precision agriculture and autonomous transportation industries” across the continental United States. That’s enough risk to […]
Enterprises Building Their Own AI Infrastructure, Buying Up Apple Hardware
August 31st, 2026Commentary on Kimi K3 back in July: Trillion dollar valuations on U.S. AI companies… while Chinese companies are running knowledge distillation operations and then releasing competitive models for free… Hmm. While nobody is claiming that Kimi K3 is better, overall, than top proprietary systems, companies can potentially run it in their own data centers. If […]
How Marine Rifle Squads Plan To Fight Future Wars Dominated By Drones
August 28th, 2026Trillions of dollars went up in smoke on just the F-35 boondoggle as ground forces were left totally vulnerable to unsophisticated, inexpensive and devastating attacks. While nobody goes to prison for wasting trillions of dollars, a solution for whatever ails .mil is available for the low, low price of… Via: The War Zone: The ubiquity […]
Battle Damage Assessment of Iranian Attacks on U.S. Assets in Jordan
August 28th, 2026Via: Daily Mail:
SpaceX Starbase, Louisiana
August 25th, 2026Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity. Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project ?… pic.twitter.com/hq308hvg2g — SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 25, 2026
U.S. Navy Live-Fire Tests Drone Sailboat With Missile Launcher
August 22nd, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: Once known primarily for capturing dramatic footage from inside hurricanes and tropical storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, Saildrone’s autonomous surface vessels have evolved into dual-use platforms that recently demonstrated the ability to deploy Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM). California-based Saildrone revealed in a press release that its unmanned surface vehicle (USV) launched two […]
Chinese Robot Runs 100m Sprint Quicker than Usain Bolt’s World Record
August 22nd, 2026Why run them into a padded barrier instead of slowing them down??? haha Via: Guardian: A ?robot named Lightning ?has run ?the 100m in 9.32 seconds, ?beating the human world ?record, China’s ?state broadcaster ?has reported. The humanoid, developed by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor, ?reached a peak speed of 14.5 metres per second during […]
