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[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

I’m laughing, but he’s exposing Bass and Newsom for the cartoon characters they truly are.

The simple fact is that you’d have to be out of your mind to reelect Karen Bass after what she has done to our beautiful city. She is a living nightmare.

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

@Channel_Expo next year you need to get better attendee rates at the @VenetianVegas - $400/night + fees is hardly a “group rate”

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

@RepSwalwell Good riddance you lying rapist treasonous criminal. California deserves much better. Hope your wife divorces you.

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

So even the @TheDemocrats see @ericswalwell as a rapist. Let’s hope he’s prosecuted for his crimes against women.

[TheTicklerIsInBackup @TicklerIn]

@PollTracker2024

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails.

Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.

Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 The 48 Laws of Power has sold 5.5 million copies, spent 230 weeks on Amazon's bestseller list, and is banned in US prisons across 18 states.

The reason it's banned? "Manipulation techniques."

I turned all 48 laws into 12 Claude prompts.

You describe any social, corporate, or political situation and it tells you which law you're violating and the exact counter-move.

Here are all 12:

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Jensen Huang on the future of coding: “Every engineer is going to have 100 agents.”

Jensen:

“Everything that's too big, too heavy, takes too long, those ideas are all gone.”

Chamath:

“You're reduced to creativity. Like, what can you come up with?”

Jensen:

“Exactly.”

“Now the question is, how do you work with these agents?”

“Well, it's just a new way of doing computer programming.”

“In the past, we code.”

“In the future, we're going to write ideas, architectures, specifications. We're going to organize teams. We're going to help them define how to evaluate the definition of good versus bad. What does it look like when something is a great outcome? How to iterate with you, how to brainstorm.”

“That's really what you're looking for.”

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

The next wave of #AI is infrastructure @nvidia

[COACHTY @TheRealTRTalks]

$AI IS ABOUT TO REBUILD THE WORLD’S INDUSTRIES 🚨

$NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says we’re entering the largest industrial buildout in human history — powered by #AI.
This isn’t just software.

It’s a global infrastructure revolution:
- AI factories & chip plants
- Robotics across $50T manufacturing
- AI-native telecom networks
- Autonomous retail & customer service
- Real-time AI for media, gaming & live video
-:Quantum + GPU hybrid systems

Even telecom towers could soon become edge AI compute platforms.
The message from GTC was clear:
The next wave of AI isn’t an app.
It’s infrastructure.
And it’s just getting started 🚀

[Kr$na @krishdotdev]

🚨Most people missed what just happened in AI in the last 24 hours.

NVIDIA GTC 2026 kicks off — Rubin GPU, Vera CPU, and gigawatt-scale AI factories unveiled

Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1B seed at $3.5B valuation. Less than 3 months old

OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 — 1M token context, strongest coding model yet

Claude Code is now the most loved dev tool at 46%, ahead of Cursor (19%) and Copilot (9%)

Amazon launches Health AI Agent for Prime members, cuts 16K jobs for "agentic workflows"

DeepSeek V4 reportedly imminent — strong in code and reasoning

Karpathy's AutoResearch hits 23K GitHub stars in 3 days

NVIDIA open-sources Nemotron 3 Super — 120B hybrid Mamba-Transformer, 1M context

Eli Lilly powers up a 9,000 petaflop AI supercomputer to cut drug timelines in half

Wild 24 hours for AI.

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

I'll be at NVIDIA GTC 26, where you can book me for this @e180labs braindate: Learning from Failure: what’s one lesson you’ve learned from taking a big risk? https://t.co/IcpGO5CiT7 #braindate

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

So #lawrencesummers former president of @Harvard @BillClinton administration #TreasurySecretary @WorldBank exec and professor who was mentor of @sherylsandberg of @Meta and gave her 1st job. He’s now resigned from Harvard. Why the silence from all the powerful people?

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

@MarioNawfal This ⬇️

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

Hey ⁦@canva⁩ I guess your #AI assistant isn’t working at all. What’s up?

[Larry Hawley @HawleySports]

Team USA pays tribute to the late Johnny Gaudreau after winning the gold medal against Canada.

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

@elonmusk The most common sense thing to do is to pass the save act and have free and fair elections

But the criminal politicians don’t think so

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

YIKES

China just posted a record-breaking $1.2 trillion global trade surplus. The EU's is up 18.1%. Germany's numbers are BONKERS - a staggering 108% surge in surplus, meaning that it now accounts for nearly a third of China's entire EU surplus.

The US has been aggressively correcting its own trade imbalance with China through tariffs and restrictions. The result? China's exports to the US plummeted 20% in 2025, with imports from the US down 14.6%.

Those diverted goods are flooding into Europe, especially Germany. Beijing is redirecting its export machine to softer targets, exploiting the EU's open markets while building dependencies in critical sectors like EVs, batteries, and solar panels. Germany, with its auto giants like Volkswagen and BMW deeply entangled in the Chinese market, is particularly vulnerable.

China's mechanism is through excess production capacity. It identifies a key industry, builds the capacity to produce 90% of global demand, and then flood markets with subsidized exports priced at marginal cost, backed by a 20% undervalued currency.

Domestic markets are decimated. Germany is de-industrialized.

Germany can either admit "Trump was right" or continue getting teabagged by the Chinese.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth reading

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is heartwarming to see so many Venezuelans celebrating their country freed from a brutal tyrant ❤️🇺🇸🇻🇪❤️

[markfriedler @markfriedler]

Don’t cry for me #Argentina. Visiting #Evita gravesite