Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Inside the U.S. ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
September 23rd, 2026We’re expected to believe that the atrocity resulted from a cascade of preventable failures. Outdated intelligence, a military database that still classified the site as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard facility, insufficient human review, compressed targeting timelines, and excessive confidence in AI-assisted systems… A perfect storm of screwups. Either that, or: The purpose of a system […]
Samsung Accidentally Freezes Its Smart Fridges with a Software Update
September 23rd, 2026Via: Android Authority: There are plenty of smart home appliances on the market, featuring internet connectivity, cross-device integration, and a host of other features. However, there’s no shortage of horror stories about these connected appliances failing. Now, we can add another Samsung smart refrigerator issue to the list. Samsung has stopped rolling out a SmartThings […]
AI Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Components Aboard Chinese Vessel Bound For Iran
September 18th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: Could runaway artificial intelligence (AI) spark a future WW3? We don’t need movies like Terminator 2 and its SkyNet to help us imagine this, it’s 2026 and there is already a terrifying real-world precedent that could have kicked off a shooting war with nuclear-armed China. A human analyst within the US intelligence community […]
Anthropic Sets Up Biology Lab for AI Drug Program
September 18th, 2026Via: Reuters: Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or ?place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]
“Two Plumes of Gauze and then the Racoon Protocol”
September 16th, 2026This American did an interview with an AI recruiter If you speak nothing but nonsense to the AI agent, it doesn’t correct you or ask you to go into detail. The AI recruiter actually has a conversation with you that makes no logical sense There seems to be no flags in the… pic.twitter.com/sRx6RtbqkP — Wall […]
Leopold Aschenbrenner Is Back to Losing Money in AI Stocks
September 16th, 2026Leopold Aschenbrenner is definitely an enterprising man! Via: Crypto News: Leopold Aschenbrenner of hedge fund Situational Awareness has returned after losing billions of dollars in July — and he’s already losing money again. CNBC broke the news Friday morning, six weeks after Aschenbrenner’s historic blow-up, that Situational Awareness was re-buying AI stocks and leveraged options […]
SpaceX Building Gas Turbine Components to Power AI
September 14th, 2026Via: Startup Fortune: SpaceX is building its own foundry in Bastrop, Texas, to cast gas turbine blades and vanes, sidestepping a global supply chain where only three foundries can make the parts and order books run through 2029. The move, first reported by The Information and confirmed by Elon Musk, is meant to power SpaceX’s […]
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 […]
