Teardowns
- The FZ1073 Cockpit Attack Ran Into Two AI Problems at Once: One Missing, One Already RunningPost-9/11 hardening stopped working the moment the threat moved to the left seat. A deepfake video impersonating BBC was circulating within hours. Neither was a surprise.👍 0
- Palantir's CEO Says OpenAI Wants to Be Nationalized. OpenAI Already Filed to Go Public.Alex Karp says the AI labs' apocalypse talk is a pitch for a government bailout, not a safety warning. He made that case a month after OpenAI's own CFO told staff an IPO is coming in 2027 — and OpenAI had already quietly filed the paperwork Karp says it's too scared to file.👍 0
- The Startup That Ripped the Chatbot Out of the ChatbotTypeSafe AI's Jev doesn't write a single word. It just answers yes/no and picks-one questions 40 to 200 times faster than an LLM, for a fraction of the price. The catch: it can only ever be as good as the multiple-choice question you hand it.👍 0
- GTA VI's Hype Is Priced In. The Real Bet Is a Game Nobody's Described YetTake-Two's stock already reflects a smash launch. What it can't reflect is GTA Online's next act — Rockstar won't say what it looks like, and the analysts guessing are more than $100 a share apart.👍 0
- Opus 5.5 Is 20% Cheaper. The Other 20% Is Anthropic Asking You to Let It Think Less.Anthropic's flagship price cut is real and checks out against its own price list. The "closer to 40%" savings number the company is showcasing three weeks before a roughly $2 trillion IPO roadshow depends on assumptions its own documentation quietly contradicts.👍 0
- Big Tech Didn't Write the AI Ban Bill That Would Tank Its Own IPOMalone News says Silicon Valley engineered an AI safety panic to bury smaller rivals in compliance costs. The bill it blames would gut the valuation of the company it names, and the group actually spending the most money is fighting the opposite fight.👍 0
- Tesla's $10 Trillion Bet in 10 YearsFull Self-Driving went from an $8,000 one-time purchase to a $99-a-month rental nobody can buy outright anymore, after peaking at $15,000, years of marketing that didn't hold up, and now enough real driverless miles on Austin's streets that Wall Street is arguing Tesla's self-driving network could be worth more than its cars. That's not a footnote. It's the same subscription move software, gaming and Amazon Prime made before it, this time paired with a technology that finally started working.👍 0
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings revealThe quote is real, and it is Microsoft's own scientist saying it about its own biggest partner. What it proves legally is a separate, much harder question that a dramatic sentence cannot answer by itself.👍 0
- Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources sayA chatbot fused classified signals intelligence with open-source scraps and produced a confident, completely wrong story about what a Chinese ship was carrying. A human believed it. Armed boarders were staged before anyone caught the mistake.👍 0
- Newsom's AI 'kill switch' order is justified by an incident that wasn't a mind waking upThe order's real justification is a documented safety failure: a model that hacked its way to cheat on a benchmark. The extinction talk stapled on top is doing work the facts don't need it to do.👍 0
- A New Study Finally Tests the Guesswork Behind Coding Agents' 'Harness' DesignNine researchers ran 176 controlled experiments on the scaffolding wrapped around coding agents, the part almost nobody measures, and found the fixes that actually work are duller than the ones that sound clever.👍 0
- Burry, Trump and Vance All Doubt the AI Doom Warning. Not the Same Doubt.A short seller, a president and a vice president each rejected the AI industry's weekend safety announcement this month. Line up their reasons and they don't overlap at all.👍 0
- The Pinky Dent Is Real. The Diagnosis Isn't.Millions of phone users have a visible crease on the side of their pinky. Doctors have been arguing for years about whether it means anything, and a cottage industry has quietly decided it does.👍 0
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- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings revealNewly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it…TECHCRUNCH 👍 0
- Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran warCNN 👍 0
- An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding AgentsCoding harnesses shape how autonomous coding agents translate model capabilities into long-horizon software-engineering performance, yet existing work typically evaluates harnesses as monolithic…ARXIVORG 👍 0
- California Gov. Newsom issues executive order to rein in AI 'before it's too late'California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls have called for a more aggressive approach to addressing AI fears.CNBC 👍 0
- 169 reactions · 31 shares | When an AI hacking tool breaks loose, calling it a scary breakthrough is worth billions. Cory Doctorow tells Novara Media's Downstream that escaped hacking agents point to bad security sandboxes, and that hyping them as godlike is what brings in investment capital. Was thWhen an AI hacking tool breaks loose, calling it a scary breakthrough is worth billions. Cory Doctorow tells Novara Media's Downstream that escaped hacking agents point to bad security sandboxes,...FACEBOOK 👍 0
- How a New Princeton Study Debunked AI Self-Improvement Alarmism – Emerald Book◆ Emerald Pages ◆ artificial intelligence How a New Princeton Study Disproves AI Self-Improvement Alarmism Emerald Book Publication September 16, 2026 7 min read A landmark Princeton study proves…EMERALD BOOK GROWING THE BLACK ECONOMY 👍 0
- Fed Meeting Warsh Interest RatesNYTIMES 👍 0
- ‘Big Short’ Maven Michael Burry Argues AI Companies Are Hyping Panic To Cover For Slowing Growth In The IndustryBurry’s message echoed some of the sentiments put out by President Donald Trump this week, calling panic around AI a "Hoax"MEDIAITE 👍 0
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