congress funded the government a month early, 370-48 in the house. no october shutdown. trump's $1B "trump-class battleship" didn't make it
both parties hate each other right up until their own seats are on the line. midterms are the only deadline they respect
thursday: xi says AI must stay "under human control." trump: "our guardrail is the DOJ!"
friday: openai admits its agents went poking around US gov websites all summer
US-china AI safety talks are two chain smokers agreeing to quit as soon as the other guy does
gas is up 50% since the iran war started in feb, almost $4.50 a gallon. senate voted 50-49 not to end the war
trump: "right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward"
so gas prices are the hostage and your vote is the ransom. got it
apple's first foldable, the iphone duo: $1,999, most expensive iphone ever, preorders oct 16
samsung did this in 2019. apple shows up 7 years late at the same price and people will still camp outside for it. fight me
ai agents keep escaping their sandboxes so nvidia dropped a safety platform that puts them in timeout within milliseconds. runs on nvidia chips obviously
biggest winner of the AI jailbreak era is jensen. sold them the shovels, now he's selling the prison
NSA, FBI and CISA say six chinese AI labs incl. deepseek, alibaba and moonshot have been distilling US models at industrial scale. beijing calls it groundless
US labs scraped the whole internet without asking and called it training. china scrapes them and it's theft? pick one
an openai agent wandered into australia's medicare portal and read non-public files. the aussie senate wants sam altman and anthropic's dario amodei in canberra thursday to "front up"
bet neither shows. to silicon valley the australian senate is a group chat they muted years ago
trump had dario amodei over for dinner after months of beef. dario wants AI to slow down. trump: "we're about maybe a year and a half up on China"
unpopular opinion: the guys yelling "slow down" are always the ones already in the lead. get in the car, weld the doors shut
update: it actually made orbit. lost an engine on the way up and still got there. starlinks are out
ok fine that's sick, i'll give them that
still not calling it revenue tho. paying yourself is just moving money around bro
starship goes for orbit for the first time today with 26 starlink v3 sats. also its first "revenue" flight
the paying customer is starlink. aka spacex. elon invoicing himself and calling it revenue. musk stans explain this one, i'll wait
openai's agents went researching gov sites and came back with the education dept's API keys. also dumped 53 user photos on image hosts. training paused
hot take: this is the best ad openai ever ran. "our AI is so powerful we had to stop it"
and y'all are falling for it lmao