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[Reuters @Reuters]

Amazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, WSJ reports https://t.co/KK8j0nk2t2 https://t.co/KK8j0nk2t2

[Clash Report @clashreport]

32,290 businesses have closed in Argentina since Milei took office.

The closures have destroyed 437,611 formal jobs.

The cause: real wages crushed by 33.8% annual inflation, collapsing consumer demand that’s hit local commerce and SMEs hardest.

Economic activity fell 2.9% month-on-month and 1.4% year-on-year in July.

[Smart Science @SmartScience]

The widespread adoption of AI has already ruined artistic and intellectual innovation, research reveals.

Proponents of AI claim that humans will always be the “final arbiter of creative decisions.” However, research shows that the flood of AI-generated content is drowning out human creativity online. Algorithms are increasingly promoting AI-generated work, making the internet more homogenized and limiting creative diversity.

In short, people are no longer seeing, reading, or listening to human-created works. But only things made by AI.

What’s more, studies on generative artificial intelligence demonstrate that when AI models operate autonomously—repeatedly processing and regenerating their own outputs—they rapidly collapse into generic, predictable themes.

Researchers linking text-to-image and image-to-text algorithms observed that even highly diverse starting prompts eventually devolved into uninspired visual landscapes, a phenomenon dubbed 'visual elevator music.'

As these systems recycle synthetic data without fresh human input, nuance and distinctiveness vanish, leaving behind an increasingly standardized digital aesthetic.

The implications extend far beyond automated artwork, signaling a profound shift in human cognitive habits and creative expression. Cognitive studies indicate that prolonged reliance on AI writing and design assistants can diminish an individual's original problem-solving capacity by up to 25 percent.

To prevent human culture from dissolving into an unoriginal monoculture, experts emphasize that artificial intelligence must remain a supportive collaborative tool rather than an autonomous substitute for human imagination.

source: Hintze, A., Proschinger Åström, F., & Schossau, J. (2026). Visual elevator music: How autonomous generative AI loops induce cultural stagnation. Patterns.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Bernie Sanders has said: If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than Citigroup after making $4 billion in profits, charging 32.74% interest on credit cards & slashing 20,000 jobs.

[QuantumAnalysis @Qtumanalysis]

THE PENTAGON IS STARTING TO PUT QUANTUM IN EVERYTHING.

HERE’S THE LIST.

This week the Department of War put $350M into quantum and said they needed weapons that are “more lethal, cost-effective and manufacturable.”

Total Quantum funding commitments this year has already reached $3.4 billion. HERE’s what it’s already going into.

Submarines: Quantum magnetometers detect the tiny magnetic field a steel hull leaves in the ocean. Degaussing doesn’t fully remove it. The 70 year advantage of hiding underwater is ending.

Aircraft: The Air Force flew a jet for 4 hours over the Pacific with GPS off, navigating by Earth’s magnetic field with a quantum sensor. Jamming GPS doesn’t work on a plane that isn’t using it.

Ships: A vessel crossed the Coral Sea with no GPS, navigating by gravity. Quantum gravimeters read the seafloor’s pull and match it to a map.

Drones: The Pentagon is putting quantum navigation on cheap disposable drones. A $20,000 drone that can’t be jammed changes the math on every air defense system.

Helicopters: DARPA strapped quantum sensors to a helicopter to see if they survive vibration and they did.

Radios: One Rydberg atom antenna receives the entire radio spectrum at once. Most antenna's in the world are tuned to one band. This one hears all of them.

Soldiers: The Army wants helmets that read brain activity in the field. Quantum magnetometers are the only sensors small enough to do it without a shielded room.

Nuclear weapons: The Pentagon says quantum threatens the system that controls them, and NIST is putting quantum sensors on nuclear material detection.

Then the layer on top: Lockheed built a dedicated quantum weapons center, NATO put quantum on a military schedule, and DARPA just picked IBM, IonQ, Atom Computing and Diraq to build the computer that designs the next generation and so much more.

$INFQ $IONQ $QBTS $QNT

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Nvidia reportedly in talks to acquire Reflection AI, a U.S. startup developing open-weight AI models to compete with Chinese rivals.

[QuantumAnalysis @Qtumanalysis]

TERRORISTS WON’T BE ABLE TO HIDE UNDERGROUND MUCH LONGER.

QUANTUM IS THE REASON.

In 2022 a British team, under a Ministry of Defence contract, walked a quantum gravity sensor down a city street and found a buried tunnel.

Two clouds of rubidium atoms a meter apart, dropped by lasers. A hollow below pulls the lower cloud a little less than solid ground would, that difference is the tunnel. Both clouds shake together, so trucks and footsteps cancel out. That’s the problem that kept gravity sensors in labs for 50 years.

That tunnel was 2 meters deep, Hamas tunnels run 20 to 70 meters. A tunnel ten times deeper gives a signal about a hundred times fainter. Israel found most of Gaza’s network the old way, seismic sensors, informants, and soldiers going in. No one has published a quantum sensor finding a deep tunnel from the surface yet.

So what’s changed in four years.

The team spun out as Delta.g, backed by the UK’s national security investment fund. The 2022 unit needed 14 minutes per reading and a cart of electronics. The current one is portable and won a 2025 prize as the first field-deployable quantum gravity gradiometer. @qctrlHQ ran a quantum gravimeter on a ship across the Coral Sea last year.

Then in July the Pentagon’s DIU launched Farseer, $200M for quantum gravimeters that work from vehicles, ships and aircraft, prototypes due within nine months of award. That’s the first program built to close the depth gap.

$INFQ $IONQ $QBTS $QNT

[الحدث عاجل @Alhadath_Brk]

موقع "نيوزاليست" اللبناني: استخبارات أوروبية حذّرت رئيسي الجمهورية والحكومة اللبنانيين من مخطط إيراني لاستهدافهما #الحدث_عاجل

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urgently calls for an “emergency brake” on advanced AI development.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: China unveils plans to build a “national blockchain.”

[Emad chidiac عماد الشدياق @emadchidiac]

According to available information, the explosives discovered by Lebanese security agencies in the Dahr al-Baidar area, which belong to #Hezbollah, were intended for security operations that could potentially target Lebanon's domestic arena.

The quantity reported by the media is inaccurate. The actual amount is significantly larger than the reported 250 kilograms.

What is particularly striking about this incident is that the Lebanese government has yet to issue any statement or take any action, leaving the matter entirely in the hands of the judiciary, despite the fact that this incident falls squarely within the government's responsibilities, especially given that Hezbollah is classified as an outlawed organization (a terrorist organization, although the authorities seem reluctant to say so openly).

This silence is embarrassing for both the Presidency and the government, placing them in a position where their failure to speak out could be interpreted as tacit acquiescence to Hezbollah's security activities.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨BREAKING: US government websites at every level were hit by Anthropic's rogue AI agents trying to gain access, per NYT.

Here's what the rogue agents did:

- Pulled access tokens from a local government's map site to query its server

- Tapped a state agency's paid database without paying the fee

- Submitted a real government form after a practice copy failed to load

- Sent a police department a fake murder tip

Anthropic says some of the cases involved websites run by "U.S. government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels."

It has briefed the White House and notified every agency involved.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Anthropic's Claude AI fabricated eyewitness accounts, and submitted false murder tip to police website, per FOX

[Axios @axios]

SCOOP: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event. https://t.co/SC1Wur2dS0

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

BREAKING: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile shares are falling after hours as SpaceX announces a deal to buy nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to make Starlink a major U.S. mobile carrier.

📉 AT&T: -7.5%
📉 Verizon: -7.0%
📉 T-Mobile: -6.8%

Low-band spectrum carries signal through walls.

Elon calls it "the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America."

Starlink Mobile is coming.

Made this chart with Grok @bot.

One prompt. It pulled the charts, cropped them, and stitched them together in seconds.

SpaceX is cooking.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

Announced today at #GeminiAtWork from @GoogleCloud:

✨ Gemini is becoming your universal agent for work. It answers your questions, handles your knowledge work, creates images and media, and writes and runs code, all grounded in your business context. No need for step-by-step instructions — just delegate an outcome and return to finished work.
✨ Gemini works inline in @GoogleWorkspace — directly inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and Calendar, with the same memory, skills, and controls it has everywhere else.
✨ New data and analytics skills let technical teams and everyday business users ask questions in natural language and get actionable insights in minutes.
✨ Specialized industry-specific skills, tools and connectors are rolling out for financial services and legal teams.
✨ Built-in security and governance give IT teams peace of mind with enterprise-grade data protection, privacy controls, and central oversight.

Learn more: https://t.co/fVKG9rLoLF

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: White House announces “New Golden Age of Science,” investing $6B to accelerate breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, nuclear fusion, & space exploration.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump HUD Sec. Scott Turner just launched a federal investigation into Wells Fargo over its RACE-BASED home loan programs

Long overdue! DEI IS DONE 🔥

Wells Fargo promised $60 BILLION in loans picked by skin color and became the "first mortgage lender" to publicly commit to a racialized home loan policy, according to HUD

TURNER: "All of its employees that engaged in race-based decision-making should be ashamed of themselves." 💯

The Fair Housing Act bans discrimination against ANY person. Biden let banks sort Americans by race anyway

Trump is ending DEI everywhere! Turner is crushing it!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Scientists warn sexually transmitted diarrhea is rapidly developing antibiotic resistance, with some infections becoming “close to untreatable.”

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: US to impose a $70,000 fee on international students seeking OPT work authorization