Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Trump Says U.S. Attacked Facility in Venezuela
December 30th, 2025Update: CIA Drone Carried Out First Known Land Strike On Venezuela Via: ZeroHedge: The CIA is reported to have carried out a bombing operation within Venezuelan territory, CNN and The New York Times report in follow-up to President Trump touting that the US had knocked out “a big facility”. CNN while citing unnamed sources, reports […]
OpenAI Testing Advertising Integrated Into ChatGPT Responses
December 30th, 2025Hallucinations + Ads = Profit? Via: Digital Trends: OpenAI is still exploring “ChatGPT ads,” even after earlier signs it had cooled on the idea to keep improving response quality. The Information reports the company is considering sponsored content that could be prioritized so it shows up inside ChatGPT answers. That matters for one simple reason: […]
Florida: Autonomous Police Vehicles Will Patrol Cities Recording Audio, Video and Thermal Information, Can Launch Drones
December 26th, 2025Via: Silicon Cowboy: Related: Jail for Spoofing AI Mass Surveillance License Plate Cameras
U.S. Marines Seeking 10,000 First-Person View Drones
December 20th, 2025The piece below mentions that battlefields in Ukraine are now covered in fiber optic cables from attack drones: Pilots from the reconnaissance company of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade showed what Lyman looks like today. The city is holding on, but is gradually becoming covered by this “web.” – "Today, the intensity of combat is measured […]
Are the EngineAI Robots Real?
December 5th, 2025[???]
The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
December 5th, 2025Via: Gamers Nexus: More: The DDR5 issue just got INFINITELY worse…
Trump Administration Encouraging Development of Humanoid Robots
December 5th, 2025Running… https://t.co/tPmp2Hq1mw pic.twitter.com/VChAa8p7j9 — Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) December 4, 2025 Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7 — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025 Via: ZeroHedge: President Trump’s national industrial strategy centers on expanding U.S. dominance in semiconductors, AI, rare earth production, clean technology, space, and other emerging technologies expected to dominate the […]
Pentagon Launches $1B Program To Rapidly Buy Hundreds Of Thousands Of Kamikaze Drones
December 4th, 2025Via: The War Zone: The Pentagon has created a new program to spend $1 billion over the next two years to buy hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones for the military. Dubbed the Drone Dominance Program (DDP), it is an implementation of War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s July memo authorizing major changes to how the […]
Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs
December 4th, 2025Via: arXiv: In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in AI-driven persuasion sharply reduce the cost and increase the precision of shaping public opinion, making the […]
Micron Will Stop Selling RAM to Consumers
December 4th, 2025Update: — Via: Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Micron Technology announced it will exit the consumer RAM business in 2026, ending 29 years of selling RAM and SSDs to PC builders and enthusiasts under the Crucial brand. The company cited heavy demand from AI data centers as the reason for abandoning its consumer brand, a move […]
