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Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force address ordered a new four-star command for drones and autonomy, a 20% cut to generals and admirals by January 2027, and a future-warfare review led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. The diagnosis is sound. The execution is the problem.
The investor who called the subprime crisis says markets should tank hard enough to stop OpenAI and Anthropic from going public. Anthropic’s own prospectus, with $7.33 billion in compute costs and $518 billion in future obligations, explains a lot of why.
A Special Operations analyst asked a chatbot to read a Chinese ship’s manifest. It invented a nuclear cargo claim, a second AI pass formatted it as an official intelligence report, and US aircraft were in the air before anyone checked where it came from.
From 2027 YouTube will let creators run up to three different cuts of the same video at once. Marques Brownlee calls it the platform’s craziest and riskiest idea yet, and his objection is not the feature. It is what happens to the comment section.
An executive order directs every federal agency to say “Super Intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” The capabilities do not change, the statutory definition carries over, and the term already has a precise and very different meaning in AI research.
Singapore’s government has launched FirstDate, a Singpass-verified matchmaking service that covers the cost of your first date. It runs on a Nobel-winning algorithm, gives you 72 hours to decide, and for now only public servants aged 21 to 35 can join.
A YouTuber let Meta’s Muse agent handle a Facebook Marketplace listing. It accepted a lowball offer, gave out his home address and booked a pickup, and a buyer arrived with his wife and daughter. Meta says no privacy controls were breached.
Amazon has confirmed that its Linux-based Vega OS exists to stop piracy on Fire TV Sticks. Android apps cannot run, sideloading is gone for good, and the app catalog dropped from over 30,000 to roughly 1,257.
The FTC has opened a probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over rogue AI agents, using existing consumer protection law. Here is what it can and cannot do.
ElevenLabs closed a $300 million employee tender at a $22 billion valuation, double its February round. Here is what the numbers say about voice AI.