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title: "U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact" source: "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/26/how-us-russia-weakened-global-effort-regulate-killer-ai/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzkwMzk1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkxNzc3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3OTAzOTUyMDAsImp0aSI6ImY2ODYzMThkLTQxNTUtNDkyNS04NzQxLTM3Mzg2ZTZmOGQ1YyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDkvMjYvaG93LXVzLXJ1c3NpYS13ZWFrZW5lZC1nbG9iYWwtZWZmb3J0LXJlZ3VsYXRlLWtpbGxlci1haS8ifQ.DcF_c_Vlgpc1yu8fbfWuEt0HvgRmXSKgQhgIYrnawcI" author:

• "[[Pranshu Verma]]" published: 2026-09-26 created: 2026-09-28 description: "The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progress yet toward a potential treaty." tags:
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Copper thieves expand their targets: now, too, data centers Those investigated also have police records for acts of a similar nature

Six people arrested for stealing copper and construction materials from a data center in San Agustín del Guadalix Civil Guard Europa Press

RAFAEL FERNANDEZ Created: 07/17/2026 11:20 Last update: 07/17/2026 11:20

To the delays in trains, among other causes, due to copper theft by organized gangs, a new objective has been added in recent times. This has been revealed by the Civil Guard, which has arrested six people as alleged perpetrators of four crimes of robbery with force and a crime of belonging to a criminal group for the theft of copper and construction material from a data center located next to the A-1, in the municipality of San Agustín del Guadalix, the Civil Guard has reported.

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title: "Bless The BC250, The Budget E-waste Steam Machine" source: "https://aftermath.site/bc250-steam-machine-budget-computer/" author:

• "[[Chris Person]]" published: 2026-06-26 created: 2026-06-29 description: "The Steam Machine is expensive due to evil freaks. Let's make a miracle computer out of garbage." tags:
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title: "The bigger the boom, the harder the (K-)pop" source: "https://no01.substack.com/p/the-bigger-the-boom-the-harder-the" author:

• "[[No1]]" published: 2026-06-26 created: 2026-06-27 description: "The AI gold rush discovered gravity" tags:
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title: "The UK Is About to Scan Every Photo on Your Phone" source: "https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-about-to-scan-every-photo" author:

• "[[Thom Aster]]" published: 2026-06-09 created: 2026-06-10 description: "And They're Using "Child Protection" to Do It" tags:
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title: "What the SpaceX IPO means for markets" source: "https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-s1-spcx-stock-nasdaq-qqq-elon-musk-2026-5" author:

• "[[Naomi Buchanan]]" published: 2026-05-21 created: 2026-05-29 description: "SpaceX's IPO filing has arrived. Elon Musk's rocket company is set to reshape the market when it goes public, with impacts at the index level and beyond." tags:
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One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he’d made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns out, is structured into language! You could put one word into ChatGPT and it might understand what you wanted, or make up a word and see if it understood what you meant! These amazing new tools have revealed that the English corpus contains so much about its speakers!

He concluded that LLMs are a discovery on par with writing.

Regular humans hit on this idea about a century ago; my most generous interpretation of what he was telling me was that he’d hit on a kind of naive, confused version of Structuralism; Saussure via a game of telephone. (There has been recent work on a similar point, which argues that one needs to [understand LL

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title: "Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees" source: "https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4" author:

• "[[Alistair Barr]]" published: 2026-04-10 created: 2026-04-15 description: "Are AI agents employees or tools? A Microsoft exec suggested they're new paid "seats," a shift that could reshape SaaS pricing — and spark pushback." tags:
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title: "AI's sinister takeover of British politics" source: "https://archive.is/2026.04.09-093031/https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup" author:

• "[[archive.is]]" published: 2026-04-09 created: 2026-04-13 description: tags:
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CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman speaks during the 2026 Infrastructure Summit of government officials, corporate executives, and labor leaders, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

April 1 (Reuters) - Sam Altman's sister amended her civil lawsuit accusing the OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, after the judge said ‌she could try pursuing her case under Missouri's child sexual abuse statute, opens new tab.

Annie Altman filed her amended complaint on Wednesday in St. Louis federal court. Sam Altman [has denied her allegations](https://www.reuters.com/legal/openai-boss-denies-sexually-assaulting-his-sister-after-she-files-lawsuit-2025-01-08