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Happy 4/20 everyone

I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

This pasta sauce wants to record your family Even dinner wants to listen to your conversations now.

Why.

Vanceplaining

The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.

The system “combines a Reddit-like forum with a chatbot called VictorBot to help troops surface useful information, like the best way to configure electromagnetic warfare systems for a particular mission.”

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

Headline maker @theguardian.com has a distinct sense of conveying irony.

Ik vond het niet heel veel toevoegen aan Empire of AI van Karen Hao, jij? Vooral een paar mooie details maar de grote lijnen waren wel al bekend. Ik snap niet waarom ze dat boek en de inhoud ervan niet (echt) noemen en zo de indruk wekken alsof zij alles hebben ontdekt

Microsoft, to its billions of customers:

You must use this product to be hired or promoted.

It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy.

You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it.

It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

Hoe een journalist uitglijdt op door AI verzonnen citaten Gebruik van AI-programma’s als ChatGPT als schrijfassistent leidt regelmatig tot missers. Na incidenten in media, wetenschap en advocatuur, ging nu ook journalist Peter Vandermeersch in de fout. „Ik h...

Als 'Fellow' bij Mediahuis blogt oud-hoofdredacteur van o.a. NRC Peter Vandermeersch tegenwoordig over de journalistiek. Daarbij publiceerde hij tientallen fictieve citaten van echte deskundigen. Het onbedoelde gevolg van AI-gebruik, bevestigt Vandermeersch. Mediahuis heeft hem tijdelijk geschorst.

The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chip makers The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

In 1992, I watched my mother vote for a U.S. president born of her generation, in 1946.

The president from 2001–2009 was born in 1946. (His opponents: 1943 and 1948).

In 2016, the two major presidential candidates were born in 1946 and 1947.

In 2026, the sitting U.S. president was born in… 1946.

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

Vance was ‘skeptical’ voice in White House on Iran strikes White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the leadup.

You know the war is going well when JD Vance’s allies are leaking that he was opposed to it all along. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how

Goede analyse, leesvoer voor iedereen die Anthropic op het schild hijst

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These guys are so normal.

Trump wants AI everywhere in government. See the 1,300 new ways it’s being used. The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

"On top of automating rote tasks, government agencies have launched hundreds of artificial intelligence projects in the past year, many of them taking on central and sensitive roles in law enforcement, immigration and health care."

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa. Now we know ...

Updated: the DOJ redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein files. Now DOJ tells us it contains a victim's face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.

www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...

First Trump's tariffs tipped the Canadian and Australian elections to the center-left parties.

Then his interference in Brazil flipped Lula's numbers, and Greenland threats revived the Danish left — both ahead of 2026 elections.

Trump is the international left's best friend.

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.

Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI robotics is a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity for Europe Europe's industrial base sets it up well to lead in the physical AI space, Huang told WEF

Jensen knows that the AI bubble is about to pop and he's pivoting to robotics to save NVIDIA's stock price. He did the same thing toward the end of the crypto bubble. All of this is a giant scam. You can't build an economy on graphics cards.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Congress Is Rejecting Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Personal Wi-Fi hotspot named “I have a bomb, everyone will die” triggered NATO Quick Reaction Alert Turkish Airlines flight to Barcelona was intercepted by NATO fighter jets after a passenger created a bomb-threat Wi-Fi hotspot.

Things *not* to do on an airplane:

Personal Wi-Fi hotspot named “I have a bomb, everyone will die” triggered NATO Quick Reaction Alert

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, asked top executives last year to make cuts to their 2026 budgets while he pours money into A.I. research. As Meta faces competition from companies like OpenAI and Google, Mr. Zuckerberg has increased the budget for TBD Lab, the skunk works unit at Meta that aims to build superintelligence, a godlike A.I. system.

NYT managing editor: "So, godlike AI system, what do we mean by this?"

NYT reporter: "“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

[beat]

NYT managing editor: "Make sure there's a period after the A and the I. Ship it."

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

New: DHS is lying to you.

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying

www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.

Goed stuk www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted

Another day, another AI "expert" has some kind of prediction to share with the media and they just have to share it with us...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Mercantilism, 21st century edition