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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Wegmans, Facial Recognition, and the Feeling You Can’t Shake
I should say this up front, because it matters. I love Wegmans. My wife’s family in Rochester introduced us to it in the early ’90s, back when it was still something you had to explain to people. Wide aisles. Food that didn’t feel like an afterthought. A store that seemed,…