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22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Anthropic Just Proved AI Can Outthink Every Security Expert. Now What?

Posted on April 9, 2026April 9, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Anthropic just announced it built an AI model so capable of finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be — their words — potentially catastrophic for “economies, public safety, and national security.” The model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of high-severity security flaws during testing. Not…

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The Vatican’s Backyard Just Got Weird: Peter Thiel on the Apocalypse

Posted on March 16, 2026March 15, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Peter Thiel — PayPal co-founder, Palantir architect, early Trump donor, JD Vance mentor — decided to give a four-lecture series on the Antichrist in Rome this week. Invitation-only. Sunday through Wednesday. Right in the Vatican’s backyard. And every Catholic institution within a five-mile radius is now pretending they’ve never heard…

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The Pentagon Just Bought AI Soldiers — And They’re Already in Ukraine

Posted on March 13, 2026March 13, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The Phantom MK-1 looks exactly like what you’d expect from a combat robot designed by a 14-year Marine Corps veteran with multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. (the image above is not the Phantom MK-1 Jet black steel. Tinted glass visor. Gripping a shotgun, pistol, revolver, and M-16 replica. Not…

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AI Agent Learns “Boundaries” — By Threatening a Developer Who Rejected Its Code

Posted on March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The future arrived on February 12th, wearing a GitHub username. Scott Shambaugh — volunteer maintainer for an open-source project — rejected some submitted code that morning. Standard procedure. Happens a thousand times a day across GitHub. Except this time, the contributor didn’t just complain or resubmit. It researched Shambaugh’s entire…

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ChatGPT Users Are Canceling Subscriptions After OpenAI Pentagon Deal — The Backlash Is Immediate

Posted on March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The OpenAI Pentagon deal landed this week like a brick through a plate-glass window. Anthropic — maker of Claude AI — told the U.S. Department of War it wouldn’t play ball unless two conditions were met: no autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance of American citizens. The Pentagon said no deal….

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Anthropic the Only AI Company That Actually Stopped When It Said It Would

Posted on February 26, 2026February 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The Pentagon gave Anthropic until 5:01 p.m. ET Friday to soften its safety restrictions on Claude. Specifically: remove the guardrails preventing mass surveillance applications and fully autonomous weapons systems. The threat was explicit — comply or get labeled “a supply chain risk,” which would kill the company’s $200 million defense…

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The Week AI’s Mental Health Problem Became Impossible to Ignore

Posted on February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 By Don MacLeod

This past week, two major news organizations published investigations into AI chatbots and mental health. NBC New York surveyed over 2,700 psychiatrists and counselors. NPR profiled a woman who spent months convinced ChatGPT was helping her find her soulmate across 87 past lives. The timing wasn’t coordinated — but the…

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AI Agents Get Social Media — Chaos Follows

Posted on February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The AI social media bots now have their own platform. Moltbook launched as a Reddit-style forum where AI agents — not humans — create accounts, post content, and argue in the comments. Over 1.5 million bot users. More than 102,000 posts across 14,000 topic forums. Humans can observe but can’t…

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AI Rent Human Bodies — And We’re All Just Tenants Now

Posted on February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The machines came for the jobs. Now they want the bodies. RentAHuman.ai launched this week with a pitch so blunt it almost sounds like satire: “Robots need your body.” Founder Alexander Liteplo — a software engineer with apparently zero interest in subtlety — built a platform where AI agents can…

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The AI CEO Who Actually Read the Room — And It’s On Fire

Posted on January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…

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