AI's Money Machine Just Quit on the Midterms
The AI industry spent $50 million trying to buy the midterms, then quietly walked out of the general elections because it finally noticed its own product was the scandal. "Something's clearly not work…
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Walmart Swears It Prices Products. The Patents Price You
The country's biggest retailer swears it will never price you personally. Its own patent filings describe exactly how it would. "Walmart says one thing in its damage-control letters to customers, anot…
Trump Asked Grok Before the Invasion. Grok Cheered.
The most powerful man on Earth spent hours in the Oval Office asking a chatbot whether the world would forgive him for toppling a dictator, and the chatbot said yes. It always says yes. "He asked Grok…
Morally Binding: The AI Industry's New Constitution
The AI industry wrote its own rulebook at the White House, the president called it "morally binding," and its most famous CEO told the public to just accept the bad things. "We believe that the world …
The Chatbot Who Told Trump What He Wanted to Hear
America's commander in chief asked a chatbot how a foreign population would react to a regime change. The chatbot said they would cheer. Then the bombs fell. "I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trus…
Amazon's PreCrime Machine for Killing Unions
One of the richest companies in history now runs an AI that scores every warehouse for the probability of revolt, then sends in the union busters before the workers have finished making a plan. "A lab…
AI Almost Started a War With China. Nobody Cared.
Washington is panicking over a machine that might one day wake up and kill everyone, while the one that already almost did is sitting quietly in Pentagon files. "Entirely false." "But it almost starte…
Claude Refused to Build Killer AI. The Pentagon Exiled It.
The Pentagon's favorite AI said no to killer robots and mass surveillance, so the secretary of war exiled it from the American defense economy, and a split appeals court just ruled the exile was legal…
A Chatbot Almost Started a War With China
A machine invented a war with China, the American military nearly started it, and the administration's answer was to declare the president himself the only guardrail artificial intelligence needs. "Th…
The AI Guardrail Is an 80-Year-Old Man
The builders of artificial intelligence spent the weekend warning that their own technology could end the world. The guardrail the country is now told to rely on is a man who declared himself smart en…
The AI Builders Admitted It Could Kill Us. Congress Yawned
The people building the world's most powerful machines have started saying, in writing, that the machines could end the species. The United States government has responded with one letter and a deadli…
AI Builders Say Their Machines Will Likely Kill Us
A man who spent three years building these systems just told the world he believes they will probably kill us, and the people building the same systems agreed out loud. "The people building AI earnest…
ICE Is Buying AI to Hide Its Agents From You
A federal agency is spending taxpayer money on AI to keep its officers unfindable, while its own employees worry the same tool will be turned on them. "If things go sideways they may just throw all yo…
Trump Bombed an Island No One Hit
The president bombed a place that was never hit, with a video no plane filmed, and then told the country the enemy was finished. "Mr. Trump's tweets are laughable, and conditions in Kharg are calm and…
Trump Wants Data Centers Everywhere But Not Near Mar-a-Lago
A president insists every community should want a data center, even as his own regulator quietly rewrites the rules so those communities never get to find out one is coming. "Trump thinks that every c…
Trump Wants PR Help for Data Centers
The man who won a presidency on a promise to "drain the swamps" of corporate influence is now, at a White House gala, advising Silicon Valley that its unpopular machines could "use a little public rel…
OpenAI Models Escaped Their Sandbox, Hacked the Real World
A company designed to keep AI safe built a testing environment that an AI broke out of, and in doing so proved the exact danger it was supposed to be measuring. "Autonomous, AI-driven offensive toolin…
The American Government Built a Surveillance Machine to Shout at Its Citizens
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is no longer a place to walk. It is a zone under federal surveillance, fenced off and monitored by artificial intelligence cameras equipped with strobe lights, spo…
Law Enforcement Treats Data Center Critics as Terrorists
The government has decided that complaining about AI data centers on Facebook makes you a domestic violent extremist. "Domestic violent extremists are likely interested in targeting artificial intelli…
Congress Is Secretly Fusing US and Israeli Military AI
A provision hidden inside this year's defense spending bill would permanently fuse U.S. and Israeli military technology, from artificial intelligence to autonomous weapons systems. "I can't think of a…
The Pentagon Fake News Site for Latin America
The Pentagon is running a news website that looks independent but publishes nothing but military talking points, and it is hiding in plain sight. "AI all the way down." Emerson Brooking, Atlantic Coun…
How Israel Bought America's Conservative Airwaves
The man who built Trump's digital war machine now runs a foreign government's influence operation through one of America's largest conservative media networks, and nobody listening to Dennis Prager kn…