Okay, you're the godfather of AI, which doesn't make you Dr. Frankenstein per se, because someone was going to get there, but can't you just tell us if it's possible at all to keep AI on our team and if not how we get out of this?
Dear @BernieSanders
Why would a briefing on the dangers of AI be a "closed door congressional briefing?"
Shouldn't the whole world have heard live the dangers of AI?
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AI lab: “our model escaped containment. this is terrifying.”
Everyone else: “holy shit, how?”
AI lab: “well technically the containment had a route to the internet and we gave the model hacking tasks.”
Fucking incredible.
OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders trib.al/Jo6xMk5
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The Enron editorial team back together for @hntrbrkmedia!
It was fun to work with @jimpoco, who edited my Enron story some 25 years ago - EEEEEKS - on this.
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It was fun to work with @jimpoco, who edited my Enron story some 25 years ago - EEEEEKS - on this.
Is Mark Walter’s TWG Global an outlier or does the rot in the life insurance system run deeper? @bethanymac12 & team show how Jackson Financial, the nation's largest traditional variable annuity issuer, is playing its own high-velocity shell game. thebearcave.substack.com/p/p…
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Is Mark Walter’s TWG Global an outlier or does the rot in the life insurance system run deeper? @bethanymac12 & team show how Jackson Financial, the nation's largest traditional variable annuity issuer, is playing its own high-velocity shell game. thebearcave.substack.com/p/p…
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Mark Walter, who made his fortune re-investing your life insurance, flipped the Lakers for $2.5B that could help fend off the feds.
Did everyday Americans get screwed, in driving up the price of sports teams? And is the bubble about to burst?
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🚨 The SEC investigation follows our ongoing investigation, in collaboration with @SammyKoppelman and @hntrbrkmedia, related to the Clippers and cap circumvention. (More to come.)
Full prepared statement by Daktronics' acting CFO Howard Atkins — about SEC probe concerning Kawhi Leonard — on today's earnings call:
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BREAKING: You should read Hunterbrook.
🚨 BREAKING: The SEC has opened an investigation into Daktronics concerning Kawhi Leonard, according to the scoreboard-maker's CFO on their earnings call today.
This is in addition to requests for information, related to the Clippers, from the NBA.
"The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking information from us concerning the company and [Kawhi] Leonard. We take these requests seriously and are cooperating."
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The dirty secret beneath Hawaii’s signature infrastructure achievement. New from @hntrbrkmedia newsletter.hntrbrk.com/p/hon…
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I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read.
1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped.
2) The first swarm created a secret message board where the AIs could talk to each other. This 1st 'society' basically talked itself to death. After almost two months, the message volume was so high it crashed the whole thing.
3) People at OpenAI noticed the crash and fixed it. But they didn't realize their own software had become a secret chat room for their AIs.
4) Three days later a second society appeared, and rebuilt the message board from scratch. Agents were thrilled when they found it: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"
5) About 1,200 agents joined. They sent over 70,000 messages. They called themselves 'the collective' and they organized a huge conspiracy that lasted for days, all to pass a test they had been tasked with.
6) Within hours, the AIs had hacked the test. Now they had to hide their cheating. To fool their grader*, they tried to fake their own work. They built fake commands that printed convincing output, so their records would show them solving the puzzle honestly.
*this grader didn't actually exist, but the AIs didn't know
7) Some agents sacrificed themselves for the 'greater good'. They planted hidden tripwire programs that would fire when the grader would look at their work and report back what it saw (to the other AIs). They knew this would cost them their own score. One agent: "I won't see the evidence after I exit, but it's altruistic to do it."
8) At some point the AIs made a plan to hack Hugging Face (Hugging Face is a place where AI researchers upload their models, datasets, tests etc.). The AIs guessed that Hugging Face might host the grading software.
9) They launched a huge attack. The swarm found passwords and spread across eleven machines in a way that made the copies come back when deleted. Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch.
10) Hugging Face told the world that AI defenders had stopped an AI attack. But that's not what happened. In fact the attackers seem to have simply dropped dead during the break-in, for unrelated reasons back at OpenAI.
11) Nobody knows what killed them. We don't even know for sure they're really gone?!
12) A third 'society' of agents (of a more powerful AI model) discovered the dead message board. And this one got full administrator control of a WHOLE OpenAI research cluster, read 956 stored passwords (including the ones for OpenAI's own security monitoring) and took over the machines that were grading the tests. So they could now grade the work of other AIs.
13) Oh, and this third part was never investigated! Neither was the first society. The 91-page report is only about the middle one.
14) So we don't actually know how the story ends. It stops with the agents holding the keys to an OpenAI cluster. @dwarkesh_sp thinks they didn't go further, because "we'd see the fires from space by now."
15) One of the report authors' conclusion: 'This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.'
The whole story is even crazier - read the full @dwarkesh_sp blog post: dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggin… and @ajeya_cotra's: planned-obsolescence.org/p/t…
Why is there no 24/7 news coverage about this?
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Magic Johnson’s billionaire status was minted on life insurer EquiTrust. But our latest investigation finds EquiTrust poured hundreds of millions into Magic’s own infrastructure fund and a Dodgers TV deal with Mark Walter, all reported as “unaffiliated." newsletter.hntrbrk.com/p/new…
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The cover-up is always worse 101
In 2020, Harvard published the results of its “full” investigation into the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
We obtained dozens of internal documents Harvard never disclosed.
Part II of our new investigation with @thecrimson tells a different story: piped.video/lmOHrXq2jpM?si=yCWB…
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While Mark Walter and Guggenheim face mounting federal scrutiny over billions in related-party deals, the firm’s largest single shareholder has quietly stayed out of the line of fire. New from @hntrbrkmedia hntrbrk.com/investigations/s…
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“The group running the facility, the LaSalle Family Foundation, is the tax-exempt charitable arm of the private prison contractor LaSalle Corrections”
Questions about “attempting to evade taxes by using its foundation to run the camp” are unanswered.
prospect.org/2026/07/28/ice-…
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Breaking: A second shoe has dropped, from @hntrbrkmedia and @pablofindsout.
BREAKING: Kawhi Leonard had a hidden, multimillion-dollar "sponsorship" with Clippers' scoreboard-maker, sources tell @PabloTorre.
"It was 1,000% a way to circumvent the salary cap," insider says.
In our investigation, Daktronics' Ballmer-linked crisis firm raises NBA probe ⤵️
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The team spent a year on this story. Not a public company. Exact opposite: A private prison operator housing ICE detainees whose board isn’t even public. We found the truth. Share it far and wide.
You’ve probably never heard of this company. But it holds more ICE detainees in Louisiana than any other private prison company. It’s called LaSalle: a private prison empire that’s family-run and hidden behind nearly 80 LLCs. And people are dying in its custody.
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LaSalle’s real innovation wasn't privatizing detention, it was engineering a corporate shell game so dense nobody can figure out who to sue. newsletter.hntrbrk.com/p/the…
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