Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
NY High School to Use Humanoid Robot Teacher
July 26th, 2026Update: School District Has Paused Plan to Place Humanoid Robot in High School Classroom — Via: New York Post: A rural upstate New York school district will be one of the first in the nation to bring a humanoid robot into the classroom. The Salamanca City Central School District, located on Seneca Nation territory, will […]
FBI Instructed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Not Stop Dr. Peter Daszak, “An Extremely High Person of Interest,” on His Return from China After Covid Outbreak
July 21st, 2026Can someone let me know if I am reading this right? @brownstoneinst @jeffreytucker @Kevin_McKernan @jikkyleaks @SenRonJohnson @RandPaul pic.twitter.com/p35i4lPwoi — Jessica Rose ? (@JesslovesMJK) July 21, 2026 Via: New York Post: The FBI instructed US Customs and Border Protection to “not stop” the president of Manhattan nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance — which was later accused of creating […]
American AI Is Locked Down and Proprietary. It’s Losing.
July 20th, 2026Via: Ben Werdmuller: China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America’s closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure – and it could take the US economy down with it. … Open technologies can be used permissionlessly and therefore can be at the center of more innovation. You can host them […]
Kimi K3
July 18th, 2026Trillion dollar valuations on U.S. AI companies… while Chinese companies are running knowledge distillation operations and then releasing competitive models for free… Hmm. While nobody is claiming that Kimi K3 is better, overall, than top proprietary systems, companies can potentially run it in their own data centers. If companies are spending tens or hundreds of […]
We’re Already Living in an Alien Invasion Movie
June 20th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Cryptocurrency Miners Go Back to GPUs… for AI
June 13th, 2026AI companies buy up nearly all the GPUs, RAM and SSDs: Check Crypto miners turn to renting rigs for AI, buying up what remains of “consumer” grade equipment: Check People who mostly hate AI, and try to avoid it, pay a lot more for a lot less when trying to purchase a computer: Check Six […]
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
June 11th, 2026Via: DroneXL: Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and […]
NIH/NIAID-Funded Hantavirus Gain-of-Function Mutations Created ‘Highly Infectious’ Chimera in 2018
May 16th, 2026Via: Jon Fleetwood: A peer-reviewed study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in 2019 says researchers intentionally mutated hantavirus glycoproteins and used serial passage to create what the study itself called “highly infectious” recombinant viral systems. The revelation comes amid an alleged hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, […]
“An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.”
April 26th, 2026Via: Jer: Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider. It took 9 seconds. The agent then, when asked to explain itself, produced a written confession enumerating the specific safety […]
Sony Autonomous Robot Defeats Elite Table Tennis Players
April 22nd, 2026Elite Table Tennis players perform at the outer limits of what’s possible in terms of human reaction time and dexterity. Sony developed a robot that exceeds those limits in the real world. Ping Pong? Who cares? Let your imagination run wild with how these “innovations” will be incorporated into battlefield robotic systems… Have a nice […]
