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Bill Gates: AI ‘makes nuclear weapons look like nothing’

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:23:58 +0000

Ezra Klein: Bill Gates thinks A.I. alarmism hasn’t gone far enough. He believes the years ahead will be marred by catastrophic cyberattacks, bio-terrorism and mass job loss, unless the government acts. And he thinks the idea that the A.I. industry can just self-regulate is “insane.” I was struck in the conversation by how genuinely afraid Gates seemed to be that we are not ready for the consequences of what we are building, and how emphatic he was that so...

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OpenAI gets sued over Hugging Face cyberattack

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:23:45 +0000

Wired reports: A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the suit alleges. The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI’s agents violated California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access...

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FTC launches broad investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:23:31 +0000

The Washington Post reports: The Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad investigation into the safety of artificial intelligence systems made by Anthropic and OpenAI, a senior agency official said Wednesday. The full extent of the probe was not clear, but the FTC has wide authority to investigate unfair and deceptive practices that hurt American consumers. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an investigation that has not been made public. The investigation could provide backing for...

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OpenAI’s Greg Brockman backs out of second $25 million donation to AI super PAC

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:23:16 +0000

The New York Times reports: The OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a $25 million donation that they had planned to give to a leading artificial intelligence advocacy group, a sign of how sensitive the company has become to the growing backlash to A.I. The group, a super PAC called Leading the Future, said last summer and repeated in later comments that the Brockmans planned to donate a total of $50 million,...

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How Meta uses AI data centers to avoid billions in federal taxes

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:23:02 +0000

The New York Times reports: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors. “Every sign that we’re seeing in our own work and across the industry gives us confidence in this investment.” But when Meta files its taxes, it tells the Internal Revenue Service a different story. It claims that its A.I. data centers are a giant experiment that could fail,...

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The FBI was hacked. We’ve seen the data

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:22:48 +0000

Garrett Graff writes: In what might turn out to be the gravest intelligence breach of the FBI in history — and perhaps one of the worst in all of US history — a criminal hacking group is claiming to have compromised the bureau’s hiring and personnel records. The group, known as ShinyHunters, appears to have “exfiltrated” data on perhaps tens of thousands of current and former FBI employees, both agents and not, perhaps even effectively everyone who has been...

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Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain’s inner workings

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:22:29 +0000

Conor Feehly writes: I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, and assessed the energetic state of my body, all in the space of a few seconds. How is the brain able to do this? Partly by harnessing electricity. The brain spends about half of its energetic resources maintaining the electrochemical gradients...

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Music: Söndörgő — ‘Kind of Bela’

From elsewhere — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:22:05 +0000

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The coming AI economic meltdown

From elsewhere — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:08:37 +0000

Robert Kuttner writes: A new report to be presented today at the Brookings Institution shows that the total cost of the AI build-out through 2032 will be $10.3 trillion. That amounts to 3.63 percent of GDP per year, many times that of previous large-scale infrastructure investments, from the 19th-century canals, the railroads, telephone, and electric grids, to the interstate highway system. And unlike AI, whose benefits are speculative, unproven, and with hard-to-fathom risks, these earlier investments in infrastructure more than...

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Mustafa Suleyman: Can AI be kept under human control?

From elsewhere — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:08:21 +0000

Can Artificial Intelligence stay subordinate to humans? Is Anthropic’s 100-Page constitution for Claude creating dangerous AI autonomy? Should AI models be granted legal personhood, rights, or financial compensation? CEO of Microsoft AI, and co-founder and former head of AI at DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, joins Rory Stewart to discuss all this and more.

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