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Mike Pearl

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Mike Pearl

    Trump Clearly Expects AI Leaders to Go Along With His 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand. Will They? (opens the original)

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    The President wants certain things to happen, and the entire world sometimes watches as those things fail to happen on the grandest scale possible. He wants the U.S. to annex Greenland. He wants the Strait of Hormuz to open. Now he quite clearly wants everyone to call artificial intelligence “Super Intelligence,” which, in keeping with his writing style from the golden age of his Twitter account, should be written in title case. With an executive order signed on Tuesday, Trump has made it offici

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mike Pearl

    Trump's New America.gov Chatbot Seems to Drop Acid When You Tell It to Play Minecraft (opens the original)

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    You’re gonna be alright, America.gov. We’re gonna get you some Gatorade and let you chill out with a whale sounds CD for a while. That sound okay? That might be your instinctive reaction to what happens when you tell the official chatbot of the United States of America to “play minecraft.” To say it “glitches out” would be an understatement. It seems to fully enter “bad trip” mode. While seemingly incoherent and hallucinatory, the text is a riff on the end poem for Minecraft, originally written

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mike Pearl

    FBI Staff Memo Reportedly Assumes ShinyHunters Stole 'All FBI Employees' Personal Data (opens the original)

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    If you work for the FBI, your employer says you should just assume your personal information was stolen by hackers, according to an internal memo reviewed by the New York Times. “We are operating under the premise that the threat actor is also exfiltrating [personally identifiable information] of all F.B.I. employees,” the memo apparently says. The humiliating ShinyHunters hack, originally reported on Tuesday of last week, was a bit like working for Orkin and finding out that you and all your co

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mike Pearl

    Senate Report Says Tether's USDT Is Central to Iranian Proxy Financing (opens the original)

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    A 28-page Senate report published Monday by Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal paints a vivid picture of the central role the Tether stablecoin USDT is thought to play in the Iranian regime’s underground financing system. USDT is, in short, a major financing pipeline for groups like Hezbollah, according to Blumenthal. The politics at play couldn’t be clearer. While the U.S. continues to be mired in a war with Iran, the current Republican president and his family have made billions thanks to t

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mike Pearl

    OpenAI Cancels Release of GPT-6.1 Astra Because It 'Regressed' on Safety (opens the original)

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    OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Astra was headed for an October release, but that plan has been canceled, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ’s report comes at least in part from an interview with OpenAI’s Head of Safety Systems, Saachi Jain. The model, which reportedly showed improvement in the fight against model laziness nonetheless (in the words of the WSJ) “regressed in two areas.” Those areas were deception and the failure to seek authorization. Crucially, it doesn’t sound like the model had so

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