NEW: OpenAI is sharing more details of how its agents went rogue and hacked other companies. Those agents did it right under OpenAI’s nose, using a *message board* to correspond: (Yes, this is absolutely insane.)
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
wired.com
"Beyond just profiting from war, asset managers, private equity and speculative capital increasingly shape what militaries buy, how fast they buy it, and on whose terms." Must read at PW from @jacktaggart.bsky.social @alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/def...
The purest expression of corporate capture in Congress: With an explosive diarrhea outbreak sweeping the country, Republicans are simultaneously trying to ram through a provision that would repeal hundreds of food safety/animal welfare provisions. Incredible. 📹: @calltoactivism.bsky.social
Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is officially over, turning more than 300,000 people into targets for ICE. trib.al/8noPxhV
Trump’s Deportations Turn Into New Horror With End of TPS for Haitians
Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is officially over, turning more than 300,000 people into targets for ICE.
trib.al
Trump’s Mid East war may have burned off a lot of America’s top tier weapons, but it’s also on track to deliver a huge financial windfall to Iran. “According to the senior Iranian official, Iran is seeking fees of between 5% and 7% of the price of cargoes from ships using the strait.” Via Reuters
Proposed Hormuz deal would give Iran control of inbound traffic, sources say
A proposed deal between Iran and Oman to help end five months of war between Iran and the United States would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior I...
reuters.com
But all the Secret Service phones from Jan 6 are wiped clean
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2h agoExclusive: A Senate panel has obtained a copy of Dr. Anthony Fauci's Covid-era iPhone, potentially securing more records related to his actions during the pandemic.
“.. Arizona is the place in the country that’s had the largest reduction in food stamps since the passage of the Big, Beautiful Bill. .. 450,000 people have lost nutrition aid there. “.. it includes more than 100,000 children as well.” @nytimes.com #OBBBA www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/p...
It's getting harder and harder to distinguish between the AI hype and the AI doomsday scenarios. Maybe there isn't one . . . www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | Will A.I. Create a ‘Permanent Underclass’?
The writer Jasmine Sun joins the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss whether A.I. will create a permanent economic underclass or if the complexity of human jobs will resist total automation.
nytimes.com
Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses. www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming
Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.
wired.com
If ICE can send subpoenas to deanonymize social media accounts, couldn't they have done it for the anonymous and overtly racist account we found is run by one of their own employees who is still working there?
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · last yr.REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 9h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
Leading Minnesota Republicans want to help the feds terrorize the residents of their state.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoEvery single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
More on the biggest pump and dump operation in modern times. Today’s investment contest: Guess how many paragraphs deep is the revelation that SpaceX lost $541 million in a single quarter in first report after IPO. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...
SpaceX Shares Sink on AI Spending Plans
The Elon Musk-led rocket company spent $15.8 billion on AI projects in the second quarter and doesn’t plan to slow down.
wsj.com
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
We are heading into an unprecedented El Niño event. Combined with supply chain disruptions for fertilizer and fuel, there is significant risk to agricultural production in many countries.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
propublica.org
From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social : Trump is buying stock in obscure companies that build the wildly unpopular data centers while easing regulations and pushing them into 🇺🇸 communities that don’t want them
This is devastating
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d agoBREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
Iran is attacking Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. It’s *almost* as if they got their list of targets from Trump. 👀
To prop up a talking point almost everyone knew was false, the government cast a private citizen as the villain of a lie, and tried to take 10 years of his life. trib.al/A9ZsN26
The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
youtube.com
This article from last year is coldly scientific—about divergences between two modes of #PlanetarySapience, e.g. simulated models & empirical observation of climate data—but the content is some of the most feverishly alarming I’ve ever read in my life. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades
Earth's energy imbalance more than doubled in recent decades The large trend has taken us by surprise, and as a community we should strive to understand the underlying causes Our capability to o...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
🚨Don't fall for it. Todd Blanche didn't rewrite Trump's controversial IRS deal. He released a late-night DOJ memo designed to help secure the votes for his confirmation. We read the fine print. Here's what it actually says. 👇
Todd Blanche's Midnight Confirmation Gambit Doesn't Actually Rewrite Trump's Deal
And the "concerned" senators and much of the media are falling for it.
meidasnews.com
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount, by @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
propublica.org
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
DHS Secretary Mullin invested between $500,001 and $1 million in a company that produces Kratom, also known as gas station heroin. And now instead of cracking down on Kratom, the Trump admin is promoting it. This will only lead to more addiction & death.
Jim Geraghty perfectly understands what is going on in Ceuta. BTW, was Israel involved in this in any way? Says a connection of mine in the Moroccan foreign ministry, "of course, Israel has been a big help. They wanted to slap Sánchez in the face, and we provided the way."
The Ceuta Migrant Wave Was a Power Play by Morocco Against Spain | National Review
Spain’s amnesty policies are a factor but far from the whole story.
nationalreview.com
RFK Jr. says a blood clot 5 months after a Covid shot must have come from the shot. And Fox News immediately declares it a "vaccine injury." It shows "you can’t trust anything these people say." Fox's coverage of Fauci and his diary has been lie after lie after lie. In this video, I take it apart.
Fox Knows They're Lying to You. They Don't Care.
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtube.com