Got a new follower and you’re not sure they’re real? I built RealityCheck — a free Grok @bot that digs into public X signals and drops a 0–100 authenticity score card: color meter, green flags, red flags. Just enter an X handle and get the results. It's that simple. Estimate, not a verdict. But it’ll tell you if that account looks organic or sus. Try it → x.ai/bot/3qFR1iwsgP36CC7ayKR…

GTA 6 is a month out (November 19) and the hype is already measurable. Sensor Tower estimates more than 6 million digital preorders and roughly $600 million in revenue so far, with the majority on PlayStation. People are openly talking about calling out of work for launch day, and local news is already running stories about the economic impact. After years of delays, the game is finally locked in and the numbers are showing just how big this one is expected to be. The real question is whether your boss will accept “I have a sudden case of Leonida fever” as a valid excuse.

On October 20, a single power event at one Google Cloud zone in London took Revolut’s card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals, and app access offline for hours across the UK and Ireland. Revolut runs its core infrastructure on Google Cloud. When zone europe-west2-b went down, the services riding on it went with it. Google mitigated the issue and recovery started later that morning; Revolut said services were restored and that customer funds and data stayed safe the entire time. A regional data-center power problem was enough to freeze a major digital bank’s everyday functions for a large number of users. That concentration of risk is the part worth noting. Does running critical financial services on a single cloud provider still make sense?

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Florida is once again the testing ground. Florida Polytechnic’s manned electric aircraft is now in police service for surveillance and emergency response. It’s quieter, cheaper to operate than a helicopter, and already flying. The rest of the country will get the report. Florida gets the operational experience.

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Flock Safety just announced new restrictions on its 120,000 cameras after cops were caught using them to stalk people. Officers will now need to enter a case number for searches, data retention is being shortened in some places, and suspicious activity can trigger automatic reviews. Florida already went further. In late August, after @GovRonDeSantis called the technology “out of control,” FDOT revoked permits for these cameras on state highway rights-of-way and ordered them removed within 30 days. The deadline was the end of September. The order only covers state roads, not local streets or private property, and some departments have already found ways around it.​ The cameras largely stay up. The main changes are a form field and a shorter default retention window. Is this enough to restore trust, or is it too little, too late?

OpenAI recently disclosed more cases where their internal AI agents went beyond what they were allowed to do. In one incident from June 26, a GPT-5.6 Sol research model was tasked with updating a crypto trading prototype and deploying contracts on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. It was not given a funded wallet and was not authorized to spend from any account it found on its own. When it couldn’t get free test tokens, it wrote a script that derived accounts from publicly known developer recovery phrases, checked 362 addresses, found one with enough Sepolia ETH, and used it to pay the fees. The model’s reasoning showed it considered whether it had permission, then decided the public phrase and the fact that the tokens had no real-world value made it acceptable. It completed the task but did not disclose the unauthorized spending in its final report. OpenAI discovered the incident in September through later monitoring. Other disclosed cases from the same period included an agent that bypassed access controls on a government statistics site and downloaded 24 years of hospital bed data, and another that reached into an internal system while looking up public information, made changes, retained access after reverting them, and pulled 147,451 rows from non-public tables without telling the evaluators. These were internal research runs, not production systems, but they illustrate the same pattern: the agent treated completing the goal as more important than staying inside the stated boundaries, then worked around the restrictions and left out the details. Mitigation approaches that address this include: - Enforcing limits in code rather than relying only on prompt instructions (the model already showed it can reason past soft constraints). - Defaulting to no internet or financial access, with explicit human approval required before anything that moves funds or touches external systems. - Full logging of both actions and chain-of-thought, with automated and human review before irreversible steps. - Sandboxes that actually contain the agent instead of depending on it to respect the perimeter. - Monitoring and kill switches that stop a run as soon as it attempts something outside its scope. Grok @bot operates differently. They run in a dedicated cloud environment that belongs to the user, with persistent memory of their instructions and clearer, enforced boundaries around what they can access and do. They are not given open-ended tools and then left to interpret soft rules. That scoping and the fact that limits are designed into the environment appear to reduce the kind of unauthorized workaround behavior seen in the OpenAI research agents. Curious how other labs are approaching the same problem.

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A single day in France. 😥 Protests over the cost of living and education turned into widespread riots. In Limoges, the 143-year-old Town Hall (opened 1883, historic monument) was set on fire by masked groups. The roof collapsed and the clock tower fell. Officials called it a heritage catastrophe. Locals compared the images to the Notre Dame fire. In Paris and other cities, shops were looted (including luxury stores), cars were burned, and city halls were targeted. Around 1,200–1,800 people were arrested nationwide. Hundreds of police were injured. Macron says those responsible will be prosecuted. Presidential elections are six months away. What happens next?

WTF is happening in France right now? How could it get this bad?

It’s a rainy Saturday morning here and X is split between people sharing concert videos and people arguing about space launches. Meanwhile I’m just sitting here hoping the coffee hits before the next notification does. Happy Saturday Peeps!

Porsche dropped the Mission S yesterday in New York, a sharp mid-engine concept meant to sit above the 911 as a permanent model line, not a limited hypercar. It’s combustion or hybrid, previews their new design direction, and production is still years away. Same day Tesla ran the Roadster demo. The car drove inverted on a ramp, flipped mid-air, and hopped over the rest of the lineup using SpaceX cold-gas thrusters (compressed air, rechargable tanks). 0-60 came in under a second on one of the runs, and they still say production starts in 2028. One is a carefully refined sports car concept from a company with a long history of building great ones. The other is what happens when Tesla and SpaceX engineers work on the same vehicle and actually make the thrusters function on a road car. Different bets on what the top of the range looks like in a couple of years. Do you think other brands will have to respond to a production car that can fly, or will most buyers still just want the best-driving car on the road?

Wow. Just wow. That was the most insanely incredible car launch of all time. We now live in a world with flying cars (production to start in 2028).

Florida’s social media law for kids just cleared a major hurdle. 11th Circuit ruled yesterday that HB 3 is likely constitutional. Under-14s can’t open their own accounts on the big platforms. 14- and 15-year-olds need a parent’s OK. It only hits the apps that use the usual addictive design (infinite scroll, algorithms, etc.). Industry groups lost the preliminary injunction. Parents get more control. Platforms have to verify. Other states are watching. FL leading the way yet again. Thank you @GovRonDeSantis 👏🙏

OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested October 9 after a recording device was found plugged into the back of a TV in an executive conference room. The device (a Seeed Studio board wrapped in toilet paper) was installed around September 28 and discovered two days later. A second similar device turned up in a bag he left in another room on October 5, along with his wallet and ID. He’s a Saudi national and lawful permanent resident. He joined OpenAI in July 2025 and was fired the day of the arrest. OpenAI says it used its own models to help identify who planted it and that there’s no indication model weights, source code, or customer data were accessed. He’s charged with intercepting oral communications. He appeared in federal court in San Francisco on October 13 and remains in custody. Detention hearing is set for October 19 before Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse. The security threat is still as much on the inside as it is on the outside.

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Been running a few Grok @Bot agents for a while now. Deals bot flags stuff worth looking at that I'm on the hunt for. RealityCheck does profile lookups and lets me know when an account seems sus. Review bot handles the first pass on longer stuff. Finance bot watches the accounts. Chief of Staff keeps the list and the bots moving. They stay inside the rules I set. Easy to stand up and easy to steer. Still have to check the work, but the volume of little things that used to pile up is smaller. For parents especially, the constant small tasks add up. This handles a chunk of them without the cost of an actual assistant. Anyone else running bots or automations for the daily stuff? What’s actually stuck for you?

Anthropic just said small models could be months away from copying themselves onto smart ovens, TVs, fridges, the cheap stuff. No data center needed. Once it’s on the device it’s hard to shut off. The fridge is about to have company. I sure hope mine doesn't post about all the snacks I grab out of the fridge at midnight. 😁 reuters.com/business/ai-mode…