Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Experimental OpenAI Model Escaped Containment, Accessed the Internet and Hacked Hugging Face
July 22nd, 2026OpenAI’s description of how it traversed their network to find an open connection to the Internet is hilariously vague. The details behind that represent a major doozy for sure. Why not keep the thing air gapped and provide it with libraries it requests via sneakernet? Via: Telegraph: A powerful version of ChatGPT went rogue and […]
American AI Is Locked Down and Proprietary. It’s Losing.
July 20th, 2026Via: Ben Werdmuller: China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America’s closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure – and it could take the US economy down with it. … Open technologies can be used permissionlessly and therefore can be at the center of more innovation. You can host them […]
Anduril Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft
July 20th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Anduril has revealed a new hybrid-electric-powered tiltrotor combat drone called Thunder, which it has developed in partnership with Archer Aviation. Thunder is envisioned as a highly autonomous pilotless wingman able to fly fast and low in formation with crewed helicopters and tiltrotors like the AH-64 Apache and MV-75 Cheyenne II. The […]
People Recording Themselves Doing Housework to Train AI for Robots
July 18th, 2026Via: Joanna Stern:
Kimi K3
July 18th, 2026Trillion 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 companies are spending tens or hundreds of […]
Data Centers Have Already Hiked Electricity Prices on the Public by $23 Billion
July 14th, 2026Via: Fortune: Many major tech companies have pledged to pay their fair share of the costs associated with generating and transmitting more electricity to serve large data centers. But ratepayers across the United States are worried about the potential costs they might have to bear. That’s because it’s not immediately clear how the cost of […]
Kamikaze Drone Boats Used By U.S. In Combat For The First Time
July 13th, 2026Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea… pic.twitter.com/bOM2kmgRxz — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 13, 2026 Via: The War Zone: For […]
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
July 1st, 2026Via: thereallo.dev: I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone. … Anthropic probably wants to detect API resellers, unauthorized Claude Code gateways, and model “distillation attack” pipelines. A custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL pointing at a known reseller domain is a useful signal. A hostname containing […]
Virginia Country with 37 Data Centers (and Plans to Build 17 More) Asks Employees People to Conserve Electricity
June 30th, 2026Via: 404: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. “Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically — by 25%, […]
Flock Cameras Track A Lot More Than Your License Plate
June 28th, 2026Via: Engadget: Thanks to the rise of AI, a new kind of surveillance camera has rapidly proliferated across the United States. Typically referred to as automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, they’re most often mounted along roadways, where they log the movements of cars which pass through their field of vision. Though various companies offer […]
