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[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

DOJ is now 169 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.

The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.

But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”

Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.

I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Thomas Massie says Benjamin Netanyahu does not want U.S. aid to end and wants it rebranded as a “partnership” so American taxpayers remain locked in forever.

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: FBI records confirm that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks prior to the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA, per FOIA request.

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

🚨🚨Just in case you missed it. Here is Benjamin Netanyahu in his own words, thanking Congress for implementing “his plan” to take over the US military and intelligence services..🚨🚨

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Theo Von: “What’s really going on with data centers?”

John Kiriakou: “This has to be intel-related.”

“Look at the companies that are involved.”

“Palantir.”

“NVIDIA.”

“Abraxas.”

“These big companies that either took CIA investments to get started as seed money or are staffed by retired senior CIA officers.”

Von: “Is the CIA now spying on our own people?”

Kiriakou: “Oh, yeah.”

“That’s what Ed Snowden warned us about.”

“Without Ed Snowden’s revelations, we wouldn’t have any idea that NSA and CIA were spying on Americans.”

“And this place in Utah, he and Julian Assange told us about Utah.”

“This new compound in Utah that NSA has built has enough memory storage space for every phone call, every email, and every text message from every American for the next 500 years.”

“According to Ed Snowden, NSA, CIA, other governmental organizations are scooping up all this data, and they’re just holding it.”

“Why?”

“Until the immediate post-9/11 period, if the government wanted your information, they had to go to a federal judge.”

“And the judge had to say: that’s a legitimate reason, I’ll sign the warrant.”

“Now, they just write something called a national security letter.”

“They give it to your provider … and they just turn it over.”

“Or they go to these new data centers and just put your name in … and everything pops up.”

“You don’t have any legal protections.”

“They just take whatever they want.”

@TheoVon @JohnKiriakou

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran launches ballistic missile and drone attack on US forces and bases in Bahrain with air raid sirens now activated, per Bahrain's Ministry of Interior.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.

Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.

Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.

The uniparty showed its face today...

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I just voted against the Ukraine Support Act tonight. It sends over $9 billion of your dollars overseas, and includes $250 million for Radio Free Europe, a Cold War relic that benefits no American.
https://t.co/BVmVFajN9I

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

I believe the majority still doesn't understand the momentous threshold humanity is facing.

Anthropic itself states quite clearly that even if development ceased entirely, if all development were frozen, they would still witness massive societal changes:

"Even if model capabilities were frozen at today’s level, we would expect major changes to occur in the world. (...) And we are still early in the diffusion of today’s models into the wider economy, where a 100-person company can increasingly do the work of a 1,000-person one, because each employee will sit atop a pyramid of agents."

But there's no question of stagnation. Anthropic itself still maintains that development has exceeded its own internal assumptions. Take that statement seriously for a second and consider it. Although Anthropic models internally and assumes exponential development, even this trajectory lags behind actual development, which is even faster.

"It's happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention."

and

"The rate at which AI models improve is accelerating. The length of tasks that they can reliably complete on their own has been doubling roughly every four months, up from an earlier trend of doubling every seven months. In March 2024, Claude Opus 3 could complete software tasks that take humans about four minutes to complete. A year later, Claude Sonnet 3.7 managed tasks that took about an hour and a half. A year after that, Claude Opus 4.6 managed 12-hour tasks.1 If this trend holds, tasks that take a skilled person days could come into range this year.

So again: there can be no question of standing still.

The models are not only getting better, they can also work autonomously for longer. Certainly numerous breakthroughs are still needed, context window is still a problem. But the most likely direction is that the models themselves will find the solutions to the underlying problems. This opens up unforeseen possibilities, and Demis Hassabi's statement that the golden age of science is not a dream, not a utopia, but a purposeful reality, is now confirmed.

And finally, it's not just Anthropic, but also OpenAI, that sees this development, considers it feasible, and is moving forward.

Most people don't know what's coming. But one thing is certain: it's coming even faster than expected. And it will be even bigger.

Myth was just the beginning.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Republicans are passing a temporary rule change that will force us to vote on legislation the same day it’s introduced.

This shell game allows the Senate to jam the House with a spending bill that’s not even settled.

I support border security, but not this bastardized process.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Get ready, friends. Anthropic appears to be preparing the release of its Mythos-level model.

Pricing: $16 per 1M input tokens / $80 per 1M output tokens.

The release is likely very close, possibly even in the same week as GPT-5.6. Competition is heating up again.

Gemini 3.5 Pro is about to face serious pressure. It better be a banger.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

ITS HAPPENING

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

for the people, not the parties!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Southern Poverty Law Center is a criminal organization

[TMZ @TMZ]

👀 Rep. Thomas Massie reveals to @hicharliecotton that he and Marjorie Taylor Green have a Republican takeover plan.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Whites are dying. It’s not an accident and the only crime is noticing.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and many others have signed a letter urging Congress to increase security on orders of synthetic nucleic acids - and the equipment needed to make them - as models continue to become increasingly bio-capable.