Archive for July, 2026
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 […]
FBI Instructed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Not Stop Dr. Peter Daszak, “An Extremely High Person of Interest,” on His Return from China After Covid Outbreak
July 21st, 2026Can someone let me know if I am reading this right? @brownstoneinst @jeffreytucker @Kevin_McKernan @jikkyleaks @SenRonJohnson @RandPaul pic.twitter.com/p35i4lPwoi — Jessica Rose ? (@JesslovesMJK) July 21, 2026 Via: New York Post: The FBI instructed US Customs and Border Protection to “not stop” the president of Manhattan nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance — which was later accused of creating […]
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 […]
How Texas Police Spent $4.5 Million on Four Chevy Tahoes
July 19th, 2026Via: The Drive: It’s hard to make a 2026 Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars. Until you start packing it with military-grade public surveillance technology. Ominous Israeli surveillance tech is now being deployed on American roads. FalcoNet, brought to you by a company called Cognyte (Israel’s Palantir rival), secretly tracks people by intercepting […]
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 […]
Prepare for the Oil Crisis
July 17th, 2026Via: Upper Echelon: Research Credit: OF
Truth Social to Sell Trading Firms ‘Fastest’ Access to Trump’s Posts
July 16th, 2026It’s not enough that Trump’s inner circle is able to front load cupcakes based on his posts. He now wants to monetize slightly faster access to that information so others can front load—you know, after his inner circle has front loaded. Keep in mind that, “A significantly faster pace than a regular push notification” might […]
U.S. Launched Hellfire Missiles at Oil Tanker Attempting to Reach Iran’s Kharg Island
July 16th, 2026Via: Independent: The US has launched Hellfire missiles at an oil tanker attempting to reach Iran’s Kharg Island, after Donald Trump warned Tehran it “better behave” amid renewed strikes over the Strait of Hormuz. The unladen tanker had ignored multiple warnings before the US military fired the missiles into the ship’s smokestack, Central Command (Centcom) […]
