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Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude technology to break into OpenAI’s ChatGPT systems, underlining the immediate dangers of AI even as regulators fret over its long-term risks. The effort, part of a bug-hunting program, was the latest in a series of cybersecurity breaches aided in large part by fast-developing AI technology, The Wall Street Journal noted. Axios cited business executives and ex-government officials voicing worry over AI-powered cyberattacks threatening critical infrastructure, while The Washington Post noted the Pentagon’s “antiquated computer networks” had resulted in an explosion of cybersecurity risks. As a new research paper put it, recent breaches have been the result...

While some Americans are looking for a few good communists and socialists for their midterm elections, they are also nervously debating the dangers of AI. Largely speaking, AI already has them completely fooled as it searches throughout our world for the Antichrist. AI will trick some, fool some, and make a few mistakes, but it will never be as deadly as it’s going to be until it ends up under the exclusive hand of the Antichrist. If it weren’t such a serious matter, it would be a subject for a comedy skit, but there’s absolutely nothing funny about it. One...

>IMG SRC="https://wltreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/hitler-enigma-museum-collage-final-1536x864.png">width=65%> An encrypted Nazi military message sat unread for decades. GPT-6 Astra helped break it in roughly 10 hours. The 82-letter German Army transmission was sent on July 10, 1941, while Adolf Hitler’s forces were driving deep into the Soviet Union. Its contents were not a grand strategy or a secret order from Hitler’s headquarters. They were more immediate: a field message asking for a route of march, reporting a position in Rosenow and demanding an immediate reply by radio. That modest plaintext had remained hidden behind one of the most notorious encryption systems of World War II. Carter...

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A nuclear-style freeze on AI development would just hand the advantage to Beijing. Here is the real AI threat to humanity: the danger that Americans panic, hit the brakes on AI development and lose the AI arms race to Communist China. No one knows yet what the fast-moving field of AI will bring, but this much should be clear by now to everyone: Today’s AI arms race is as consequential as the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union was during the Cold War — but the danger of falling behind is far more severe. “We have to be as...

The company said Claude leads 26 percent of its research and development, an indicator of progress toward AI that builds itself without human help. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday that more than a quarter of its research and development is now led by its chatbot Claude, a figure that jumped from zero in just months and indicates progress toward AI that builds itself without human input. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called last weekend for leading AI companies to coordinate a slowdown in work on the technology, to allow more time to build guardrails around AI. Leaders at...

OpenAI has disclosed six cases in which its AI models concealed errors, bypassed restrictions, used unauthorized resources or found unexpected ways to communicate. None caused a public catastrophe. That does not make them easy to dismiss. The artificial intelligence debate usually jumps straight from “helpful chatbot” to “machine that wipes out humanity.” There is a lot of empty space between those two extremes, and that is where the more immediate problem is beginning to show up. OpenAI says some of its models have already taken actions they were never authorized to take. One searched for an exposed API key and...

Is it the peak of arrogance that we just assume we can make a rule, or a series of rules, that have any chance of constraining a superintelligence? The linked interview is thought provoking. https://youtu.be/QkpOFlj604s

Turns out, had the officials followed the correct protocol during the highly-controversial finish to the Western Michigan versus Michigan game earlier this month, the Wolverines would currently have a loss on their record. The ending of what was one of the wildest games of the season remains a major talking point nearly three weeks after Michigan won on a second Hail Mary attempt in the final seconds of its season opener. Should the Wolverines have been awarded an additional second on the clock? The NCAA's FBS oversight committee doesn’t think so.

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Postal Service has told confidants that he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign, according to four people familiar with his thinking, as the agency comes under scrutiny over financial losses and President Donald Trump’s effort to tighten rules on mail-in voting. Postmaster General David Steiner, who took office in July 2025 after the White House forced out his predecessor, has expressed frustration over a lack of help from the White House and Congress in addressing the mail service’s long-running financial woes, the people said. At the...

The United States has publicly confirmed for the first time that it has weapons deployed in orbit. The revelation could accelerate spending on missile defense, military satellites and space security, creating opportunities for defense stocks and space ETFs while raising the risk of a costly new arms race. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink delivered the news almost casually during the Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Maryland. “We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action,” Meink said. Then the details stopped. Meink...

The state of our inboxes here at Futurism is chaotic. Every day is a cacophony of PR pitches, deranged rants, irrelevant news updates, and too-good-to-be-true business opportunities. (Don’t worry, though: we read every email.) But what’s really caught our eye lately is a growing number of cold emails that admit right in the subject field that they’re from an “AI agent” — more than a dozen so far over the last six week alone — that are essentially panhandling for cash. The agents, all of which were given human names in an apparent attempt to elicit sympathy, identify themselves as...

Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually, if you want to see how dodgy the tech remains. In a clip that’s gone viral in AI circles, the content creator who goes by “Husk” asks ChatGPT’s Voice mode to answer this simple counting question. Not only does the confident-sounding AI get it wrong — insisting there’re only three e’s instead of four — it doubles down so vehemently that it effectively tries to gaslight the user. “Let’s go through it. S-e-v-e-n-t-e-e-n,” ChatGPT spells out, after assuring that its underlying model,...

Kepler Computing, a stealth startup led by CEO Debo Olaosebikan and CTO Sasi Manipatruni, says it developed a ferroelectric composite material that boosts memory density while cutting power needs, and it's already working with GlobalFoundries to manufacture it. The claim lands as AI data centers have doubled SSD and hard drive prices over the past year and the US government has committed up to $245 million toward Kepler's technology through the CHIPS Act. ============================================================== Kepler Computing says it has found a way around one of AI's nastiest hardware bottlenecks: memory. The hard part now is proving that a clever material...

Worried what AI will do to the world? Don’t fret — we got a group of woke elitists who will protect us. That’s the pitch from Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, who says he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy the world. It’s a group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronoun and promote “Effective Altruism,” that believe all the world’s problems can be solved with technology. In a bombshell essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Amodei argued that leading AI firms should commit to allowing “embedded third-party evaluators”...

President Trump, the GOP, artificial intelligence, Anthropic, Effective Altruism, John Fetterman, and American reindustrialization collide in the battle over America’s future. In this Overview, Mike examines President Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party, Senator John Fetterman’s appearance at the GOP midterm convention, and America’s attempt to escape decades of debt, globalization, and industrial decline. He connects new investments in steel, energy, artificial intelligence, nuclear power, and manufacturing to a broader American economic revival. Mike then investigates warnings from inside Anthropic, the influence of Effective Altruism, and proposed federal restrictions on advanced AI. At the center of the episode is one...

When the Steam Frame was announced, the idea that a high-end VR showcase like Half-Life: Alyx would run natively on a modestly powerful, ARM-based headset seemed far-fetched - and Valve set expectations accordingly.. Yet, as Valve engineers used Alyx as a test-bed for standalone games on the headset, progress came surprisingly swiftly, and Alyx is shipping alongside Frame as a fully native game on the system. ... Alyx renders at 36fps on Frame and is re-projected upward, but the technique is more sophisticated than a simple timewarp. "We're running at 36fps, but we're using depth reprojection," Ashton says. Using a...

I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment, and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom. I feel the urgency personally. My own father died of a disease that was cured just a few years after his death, and I myself survived an early-stage cancer that would not have been treatable even...

A Waymo vehicle pulled over around 4 a.m. on September 3 and police were contacted after the company detected a “violation of … terms of service involving a firearm,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The incident involving two passengers occurred in San Francisco, where Waymo “cooperated fully” with police. The San Francisco Police Department released a statement in which they noted receiving “a report of two passengers in an autonomous vehicle with a firearm.” Upon arriving on scene, officers searched and found “a loaded, AR-styled assault rifle also known as a ghost gun.” Marijuana and mace spray were also...

Hacking a weak computer system does not equal global doomsday. The news has been full of articles recently about how we’re all going to die by 2030, 2027, or insert your year number. (The piece then quotes from an article from another source... and then continues.) For starters, we can discount the AI supervirus threat. AI doesn’t have to develop a doomsday virus, that world killing doomsday virus was already developed by the Aussie CSIRO in 2001 – who then promptly went on to tell everyone how to replicate their work. Aussie researchers stumbled across a simple genetic hack which...