sam.biddle@theintercept.com / sambiddle@protonmail.com / Signal username for tips: sambiddle.99 (Pls only contact me with tips via a personal, non-work device)
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The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread)
theintercept.com/2026/09/08/…
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i personally think it’s bad that social media platforms are encouraging ai influencers that sell pump and dump meme coins!
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It's been a big week for investigations. I hope you'll take the time to read the fruits of @theintercept's months-long reporting work on a newly reopened ICE detention center in Leavenworth, KS—a former federal prison with a violent history.
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It's publication day for Valley of Death.
Come for the history of Steve Jobs and the CIA. Stay to learn why the Pentagon commissioned a study about whether a rogue billionaire would build and sell nukes. And find out what happens when powerful weapons move into private hands.
amazon.com/Valley-Death-Tech…
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having a copy of the actual check used to bribe a Senator is some of the craziest shit I’ve ever seen
“You’ve seen me deliver.”
That’s what Collins told Kao, he said, as her staff pressured him to up his donations. Kao wound up giving the Collins super PAC $150,000 in late 2019. Weeks later, according to an email, Collins’ office agreed to support $32m in new Navatek projects.
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Terms like "fancy autocomplete" were reductive sure but I think were also making the very important corrective point that AI is, as Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor have so eloquently put it, a normal technology, and not The Temporal Instantiation of the Machine God
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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very late to finally reading this but it was as good as everyone said
I have a short story in the Yale Review! It’s got everything: evil gays, Florida, credit card points, bloodshed. Thank you to Clare Sestanovich for the excellent edits. Enjoy 🔪 yalereview.org/article/danie…
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Two years after Israel's pager attacks in Lebanon, teenage survivor rebuilds his life reut.rs/4j9U2vE 📸 Zohra Bensemra
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These are precisely the scenarios that I spend a significant time actually being concerned with. The adoption of unreliable, brittle, and inaccurate LLMs within safety-critical fields (e.g., defense and nuclear) is not only a concrete risk, but has catastrophic consequences.
The AI-assisted intelligence report was “entirely false,” per 1 of the sources.
But it also “almost started a war,” the source said.
Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the 2 nations.
cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…
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This sort of thing strikes me as an orders of magnitude more likely source of catastrophic death than "rogue agents"
The AI-assisted intelligence report was “entirely false,” per 1 of the sources.
But it also “almost started a war,” the source said.
Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the 2 nations.
cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…
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The court filing dug up by @jason_kint is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life
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good things are still possible
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
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In this essay, a former U.S. government official knocks Chinese government officials for seeking to gain a competitive advantage over the U.S., and then warns that the U.S. must not lose its competitive advantage over China.
nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…
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"an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device."
"an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device."
"are you getting it?"
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This was a very nice obit for @animatedtext, probably one of the most influential people in internet culture of the 2010s and how things look now
nytimes.com/2026/09/16/arts/…
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