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(Added on: 2026-Oct-21) Government Websites Go Dark as Software Flaw Sparks Security Scramble (usnews.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-21) Critical vulnerabilities in commonly used web code spark rush to update systems (nbcnews.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-05) PLAGUE PANIC Nations urgently tighten borders as ‘plague’ epidemic fears sweep through Russia after ‘lab accident’ killed scientist (the-sun.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-05) Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation (nbcnews.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-03) Paris riots: French capital in flames as hundreds of furious protesters arrested (express.co.uk)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-01) Global bond yields soar to multi-decade highs as Middle East turmoil reignites inflation fears (cnbc.com)

Pentagon begins releasing new files on UFOs and says the public can draw its own conclusions (apnews.com)

Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data (washingtonpost.com)

Are the Three Mini-Jets, Coming Out of 3I/ATLAS at 120 Degree Separation, a Technological Signature? (avi-loeb.medium.com)

3I/ATLAS Maintained a Sunward Jet After Its Gravitational Deflection by 16 Degrees at Perihelion (avi-loeb.medium.com)

(USA) A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience (nytimes.com)

(USA) Farmers' Almanac saying goodbye after more than 200 years in publication (foxweather.com)

Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years (bbc.com)

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry (theguardian.com)

Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials" (futurism.com)

Experiments to dim the Sun will be approved within weeks (telegraph.co.uk)


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Netanyahu Takes Away Trump’s Off-ramp (paulcraigroberts.org)

A brief for animals (paulcraigroberts.org)

Minab: When the world’s most precise missile chose a classroom (aljazeera.com)

Has Trump Made a Bad Choice of War? (paulcraigroberts.org)

The road to World War III (paulcraigroberts.org)

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this (theguardian.com)

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis (theguardian.com)

2026.02.22: Citrini Research - THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

Dario Amodei - The Adolescence of Technology (darioamodei.com)

2026 was the Beginning of the End for the Western World (paulcraigroberts.org)

Maduro vs. the Donroe Doctrine (tinabrown.substack.com)

The Death of the Western World (paulcraigroberts.org)

The Camp of the Saints (paulcraigroberts.org)

Racism Against Indigenous Europeans by their own Governments: The UK Horror Story (hannenabintuherland.com)

There Will Be No Ukraine Peace Deal: Putin Should Quickly Win the Conflict Before It Leaves His Control. Otherwise, a Big War Is in the Making (paulcraigroberts.org)

The American dream is ending in a psychotic breakdown (telegraph.co.uk)

Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed (mediaite.com)

Israel’s War With Iran Has Reordered the Middle East—but Not as Expected (wsj.com)

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse (paulcraigroberts.org)

The Illusion of Expertise (brownstone.org)

Opinion: Empty shelves, for-lease signs and job layoffs point to recession by summer (marketwatch.com)

This Is How Tesla Will Die (planetearthandbeyond.co)

Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change (futurism.com)


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2026.02.25: Anthropic - Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy: Version 3.0 (archive.is)

Joint Statement on Greenland. (elysee.fr)

49 Adult Literacy Statistics and Facts for 2025 (nu.edu)

-> file: PDF: Canada - Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (canada.ca)

Nature.com - RETRACTED ARTICLE: The economic commitment of climate change (nature.com)

USA: The White House: Launching the Genesis Mission (Artificial Intelligence) (whitehouse.gov)

USA: Department of War: Army Pilots First Autonomous Dining Facility in South Korea (war.gov)

(USA) Farmers' Almanac - A Fond Farewell (farmersalmanac.com)

-> file: PDF: Nov 06 October Challenger Report: 153,074 Job Cuts on Cost-Cutting & AI (challengergray.com)

-> file: PDF: The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to (ohchr.org)

-> file: PDF: World Health Organization: The selection and use of essential medicines: report of the WHO Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines, 2023 (iris.who.int)

-> file: PDF: 2025.09.05: GOOGLE LLC's MEMORANDUM ADDRESSING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK APPLICABLE TO REMEDIES (documentcloud.org)

-> file: PDF: USA: Climate Working Group / United States Department of Energy - A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate (energy.gov)

USA: CDC: Travel Notice: Chikungunya in China (wwwnc.cdc.gov)

-> file: PDF: Winning the Race - America's AI Action Plan (2025.07) (whitehouse.gov)

Mercy Corps - Kabul’s Water Crisis (mercycorps.org)

-> file: PDF: (UK) National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World (gov.uk)

EUROPOL: Europe-wide takedown hits longest-standing dark web drug market (europol.europa.eu)

Full Speech: Vice President JD Vance Tells Munich Security Conference "There's A New Sheriff In Town (realclearpolitics.com)

World Economic Forum (2023.07): AI: These are the biggest risks to businesses and how to manage them (weforum.org)

World Economic Forum (2023.05.04): These are the jobs most likely to be lost – and created – because of AI (weforum.org)

-> file: PDF: OECD (2024): Do Adults Have the Skills They Need to Thrive in a Changing World? - Survey of Adult Skills 2023 (oecd.org)

-> file: PDF: USA (1996.08): Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 (ntrl.ntis.gov)

A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence (righttowarn.ai)

Future of Life Institute: Asilomar AI Principles (2017) (futureoflife.org)

The state of AI in early 2024: Gen AI adoption spikes and starts to generate value (mckinsey.com)

The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year (mckinsey.com)

General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence (news.un.org)

Canada: University of Ottawa-New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter (uottawa.ca)

VERSES Identifies New Path to AGI and Extends Invitation to OpenAI for Collaboration via Open Letter (verses.ai)

VERSES: AGI Breakthrough - An Open Letter to the Board of Directors at OpenAI (verses.ai)

-> file: PDF: Barclays: AI revolution: productivity boom and beyond (cib.barclays)

-> file: PDF: DEEPTRACE - The State of Deepfakes - Landscape, Threats, and Impact (2019) (regmedia.co.uk)


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Humans carry DNA from mysterious ancestors (telegraph.co.uk)

Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce (futurism.com)

World’s Food Supply Imperiled by Iran War, Fertilizer Manufacturer Fertiglobe Chief Says (wsj.com)

2026.05.28: Live. Europe Today: International Energy Agency warns of biggest energy security crisis in modern history (euronews.com)

New mathematical model suggests global population crash by 2064 (phys.org)

The world has 6 months to avert major food crisis, says UN as Hormuz struggle drags on (politico.eu)

The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What if They Could? (nytimes.com)

Good night, stars. We are on the cusp of turning darkness into day. (archive.ph)

World’s chief alien hunter: They exist... but don’t look anything like ET (telegraph.co.uk)

Unease as scientists realize you may be conscious for hours after clinical death, able to hear and think as you’re taken to the morgue (wegotthiscovered.com)

Scientists reveal what really happens after you die (telegraph.co.uk)

Human brain could stay conscious 'hours after death', new study shows (lbc.co.uk)

A ‘Twilight Consciousness’ May Exist in Dying Patients, Scientists Say. Could That Mean Death Isn’t Final? (popularmechanics.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2023.05.01 - Xu et al - Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain (pnas.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2022.02.22 - Vicente et al - Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain (frontiersin.org)

World's Oldest Cave Art Discovered In Indonesia (barrons.com)

JUNGLE TRIBE Never-before-seen HD footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe emerges – as arrow-armed tribesmen give unexpected reaction (the-sun.com)

Major signs of another coming Dark Age — collapsing the West could make history repeat (nypost.com)

These companies want to block the sun to cool the planet (msn.com)

Israeli police accused of executing unarmed Palestinians in the street (telegraph.co.uk)

Move aside Tokyo, the world has a new largest city (Jakarta, Indonesia) (nbcnews.com)

Scientists issue ominous warning over mind-altering 'brain weapons' that can control your perception, memory and behaviour (dailymail.co.uk)

When was the first kiss? Over 17 million years ago, a study suggests. (msn.com)

Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History (msn.com)

-> file: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 20240911-Slimak et al: Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction (cell.com)

Archaeological breakthrough contradicts the timeline of human civilization (the-express.com)

World’s oldest depiction of Creation discovered (telegraph.co.uk)

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway. (wsj.com)

Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth (msn.com)

The alarming reality of the internet blackout: As Microsoft Azure crashes just days after Amazon Web Services, experts warn we're 'seeing what putting all your eggs in one basket looks like on a global scale' (dailymail.co.uk)

What Happens After Near-Death Experiences: Study Reveals A Dark Aftermath From Seeing The Light (studyfinds.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025: Pehlivanova et al: Support Needs After a Near-Death Experience: A Quantitative Study With Experiencers (psycnet.apa.org)

God is real and science proves it, according to controversial new book (dailymail.co.uk)

Babies could be born without biological mothers (telegraph.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: China's Psychic Children (archive.org)

Ancient Soil DNA Reveals 5,000-Year-Old Charcoal Medicine (ancient-origins.net)

Who are the Papua New Guineans? New DNA study reveals stunning origins (sciencedaily.com)

Gobekli Tepe's Star Map, Ancient Astronomers & Predictions of Catastrophes (ancient-origins.net)

The Mysterious Significance Behind Armenia's Dragon Stones Is Solved (ancient-origins.net)

World's Oldest Psychiatric Hospital Revealed in Turkey's Cappadocia (ancient-origins.net)

Inside the battle to protect time (archive.is)

Did UV Rays Doom Neanderthals? (wsj.com)

-> file: SCIENCE ARTICLE: PDF: Mukhopadhyay et al (2025.07.16): Wandering of the auroral oval 41,000 years ago (science.org)

ICE MAIDEN Stunning 2,500-year-old TATTOOS from Siberian ‘ice mummy’ depicting ‘mythical creatures’ revealed in perfect detail (the-sun.com)

Mass circumcision ceremony leaves 39 boys dead and dozens more mutilated after botched procedures during tribal 'initiation' in South Africa (dailymail.co.uk)

Capitoline Grotto - a secret tunnel city has been revealed hidden under Rome's ancient heart (archive.is)

Life on Mars: Humans will live in huge 'space oases' on the Red Planet in just 15 years, European Space Agency predicts (dailymail.co.uk)

LONG AND WINDING ROAD Inside the bizarre village dubbed ‘Little Tuscany’ where all 6,000 residents live and work on the SAME street (the-sun.com)

Pope Leo XIV names biggest threat to humanity in first address to cardinals (metro.co.uk)

-> file: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Packheiser et al (2025): Handedness in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review and second-order meta-analysis. (psycnet.apa.org)

-> file: SCIENCE ARTICLE: PDF: Gruman, Binns (2025.04.10): Dying to Work: A Thematic Analysis of How Near-Death Experiences Affect Employees’ Work Lives (ingentaconnect.com)

Near-Death Experiences Radically Change How People View Their Careers (studyfinds.org)

British woman, 115, named world’s oldest person (telegraph.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Blondi, Malanga (2022.08.01): SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY REVEALS DETAILS OF UNDISCOVERED HIGH-RESOLUTION INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA (t.co)

Revolutionary radar scans reveal massive underground network beneath Giza Pyramids, challenging historical narratives (naturalnews.com)

Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground (businessinsider.com)

Secret Pentagon study hints at reincarnation being real after finding consciousness 'never dies' (dailymail.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process (archive.org)


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(Added on: 2026-Oct-22) Forty-Five Percent of College Students Justify Violence to Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey (amgreatness.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-06) More Gen Z college freshmen are quitting school early and moving back home with mom and dad (foxnews.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-05) The hotels hiring robots to cut their wage bills (telegraph.co.uk)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-26) Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion (cnbc.com)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-26) META BLOCK Kids face daily limits and nighttime blocks on Instagram & Facebook as Meta agrees $17bn payout in teen addiction trial (the-sun.com)

Child under 12 is euthanised in Netherlands (dailymail.com)

Factory job cuts in June neared financial crisis and Covid levels, S&P says (cnbc.com)

Ebola patients flee treatment centres in Congo for food as hunger crisis deepens (straitstimes.com)

(UK) Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened (theguardian.com)

UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work? (theguardian.com)

‘You can’t control everything’: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’ (theguardian.com)

North America’s largest commuter rail system faces a potential shutdown (apnews.com)

I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care (telegraph.co.uk)

Trans Actor Elliot Page Hopes Her Gay Animal Sex Documentary Helps Children Come Out of the Closet (breitbart.com)

(UK) NHS drops plans to block patients from hospitals after Telegraph exposé (telegraph.co.uk)

(UK) NHS claims ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’ is culturally insensitive (telegraph.co.uk)

Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions (theguardian.com)

The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs (msn.com)

Handsome at Any Cost (nytimes.com)

Love Without Limits: Brazil Flirts With Polyamory (nytimes.com)

Switzerland to vote on capping its population at 10 million (independent.co.uk)

(USA) Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says (cnbc.com)

‘No one knows anything’: Washington Post staffers fear major cuts (theguardian.com)

Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs (nytimes.com)

(UK) Newborn babies could be given Digital ID in 'deeply sinister' expansion of controversial Labour policy discussed in secret by ministers (dailymail.co.uk)

France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 (lemonde.fr)

The great unchurching of America (axios.com)

How A Decline In Churchgoing Led To A Rise In ‘Deaths Of Despair’ (studyfinds.org)

(USA) Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs

Gen-Z Revolts Against Dystopian Future as Protests Sweep the Globe (archive.ph)

Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant (reclaimthenet.org)

A photo of Miss Finland sparks accusations of racism and furor across Asia (apnews.com)

Will other countries follow Australia’s social media ban for under-16s? (theguardian.com)

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. (nytimes.com)

Australian teenagers skirt world’s first social media ban (telegraph.co.uk)

What Makes A Life Well Lived? 38 Million Obituaries Reveal America’s Answer (studyfinds.org)

Australia launches youth social media ban it says will be the world's 'first domino' (nbcnews.com)

Australian teenagers ask high court to block social media ban (nbcnews.com)

Tourists ‘paid £70,000’ to shoot innocent people in ‘human safari’ hunting trips to Sarajevo (metro.co.uk)

Denmark’s government aims to ban access to social media for children aged under 15 (apnews.com)

(USA) Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says (cnbc.com)

Hundreds of thousands of tech workers are in trouble, new report shows (sfgate.com)

The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins (archive.is)

Dubai: the dark truth — It's a magnet for Londoners, but what lies beneath the wealth and glamour? (standard.co.uk)

(USA) Airlines are feeding air traffic controllers as they miss their first full paychecks (cbsnews.com)

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy (npr.org)

Tech bro billionaires are snapping up $30 million homes that can outsmart humans (dailymail.co.uk)

What the hell happened to NFTs?

A third of UK firms using ‘bossware’ to monitor workers’ activity, survey reveals (theguardian.com)

What It Costs to Be a Sorority Girl (archive.ph)

A wildly popular 15-year-old computer whiz is becoming the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint (apnews.com)

(USA) Cops: Customer Tried To Kidnap Bikini Barista (thesmokinggun.com)

Продажи коньяка в мире упали на 13,4% из-за снижения спроса в Китае и премиум-сегменте (interfax.ru)

Why a Michelin-starred restaurant ditching its vegan menu marks the return of the carnivore (telegraph.co.uk)

(USA) Experts say rural emergency rooms are increasingly run without doctors (msn.com)

Do You Need to Own a House? Many Older Americans Decide They Don’t (wsj.com)

Years at work: Which European countries have the longest average working life? (euronews.com)

(USA) Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos (msn.com)

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations (msn.com)

The Titanic gives up its forgotten treasures: Lost black glass necklace is recovered from the shipwreck after nearly a century underwater (dailymail.co.uk)

Screen Time Nightmare: How ‘Digital Pacifiers’ Are Sucking The Sanity Out Of Children (studyfinds.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025 - Vasconcellos et al: Electronic Screen Use and Children’s Socioemotional Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies (apa.org)

Heart-wrenching lessons from Canada's Assisted Dying regime (heraldscotland.com)

A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas (theguardian.com)

Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins (apnews.com)

Short-staffed NWS enters hurricane season in "uncharted territory." Meteorologists share their concerns (cbsnews.com)

France to ban smoking outdoors in most places: minister (france24.com)

Pokemon card collectors in Singapore lost over S$111,000 to e-commerce scams since start of May (thestar.com.my)

Consumer sentiment slides to second-lowest on record as inflation expectations jump after tariffs (cnbc.com)

Yosemite scientists now forced to clean bathrooms (sfgate.com)

Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S. (2025) (wallethub.com)

UNDER INFLUENCE Drivers risk arrest & losing license for drinking too much COFFEE before getting behind wheel – how high is the limit (the-sun.com)

Social Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This Story (archive.is)

Mass firings across National Weather Service, NOAA ignite fury among scientists worldwide (msn.com)

Australia bans foreigners from buying existing homes (telegraph.co.uk)


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(Added on: 2026-Nov-04) CYBER SABOTAGE Blood banks hit by cyber attacks in France in bid to destroy supplies days after supermarket fridge hack across Europe (the-sun.com)

(Added on: 2026-Nov-04) De -30°C à de "très hautes températures": les chambres froides de l'Établissement français du sang ont été victimes du piratage d'un prestataire, "aucun impact sanitaire n'a été identifié" (bfmtv.com)

(Added on: 2026-Nov-02) Supermarket hacks across Europe: why are fridges connected to the internet? (euronews.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-19) Europe Braces for a Winter Energy Crisis as Gas Reserves Run Low (oilprice.com)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-24) Kenyan farmers turn to bugs as organic demand grows (yahoo.com)

Belgian federation to challenge FIFA’s decision to let Folarin Balogun play in World Cup match (apnews.com)

Trump’s red card call stirs political storm around World Cup (edition.cnn.com)

'HORRIBLE CALL' Trump admits asking Fifa boss for Balogun ban review despite not knowing what red card meant as Belgium threatens to sue (the-sun.com)

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift (apnews.com)

(UK) BUTT OUT Smoking will be BANNED for anyone born after 2008 as landmark legislation clears Parliament (the-sun.com)

Jet Billionaire Warns Oil Spikes May Soon Risk Airline Failures (archive.ph)

Covid gave us hybrid work. The Iran War might give us a four-day week—and this time, experts say it could stick (finance.yahoo.com)

The gamification of war (axios.com)

‘Brave New World’: IVF company’s eugenics tool lets couples pick ‘best’ baby, discard the rest (lifesitenews.com)

(USA) Kennedy declares war on processed foods, flips federal food pyramid upside down (naturalnews.com)

(Canada) Liberals back Bloc's proposal to remove religious exemption from hate speech laws (cbc.ca)

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History (nytimes.com)

Milk without cows? Inside the science of lab-grown milk shaking dairy world (business-standard.com)

Using a phone now considered among life's most risky decisions, shocking new study finds (dailymail.co.uk)

Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England (apnews.com)

(UK) Starmer’s ID plan has caused upset, but in the EU the debate has long been settled (theguardian.com)

Every adult in the UK will soon be required to have a digital ‘Brit-card’ ID (metro.co.uk)

China experiments with merger of man, machine in pursuit of powerful new AI (archive.ph)

Why Beef Prices Have Hit a Record (nytimes.com)

Will democracy survive technology? An urgent TED Talk from Carole Cadwalladr at TED2025 (blog.ted.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Hickey, Rieder, Earl (2016.10): Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Change (ia800901.us.archive.org)

Mold On The Menu: Scientists Create Surprising Meat Replacement (studyfinds.org)

The Last Days of the Barcode (msn.com)


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Klimt Painting Becomes the Most Expensive Work of Modern Art at $236.4 Million (wsj.com)

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ (theverge.com)

San Francisco bookstore stops selling J.K. Rowling titles due to 'Harry Potter' author's anti-trans views (nbcnews.com)

The Front Page of the Dead Internet (slate.com)

From Angelou to Vonnegut, Florida schools pulled hundreds of books last year (msn.com)


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(Added on: 2026-Nov-03) Scientists find first-ever evidence of fossilized blood cells in 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones (thebrighterside.news)

Egypt uncovers lost Byzantine-era city in the western desert (apnews.com)

Pompeii, artificial intelligence reconstructs for the first time the escape of an eruption victim (finestresullarte.info)

Seven million-year-old walking ape could be earliest human ancestor (telegraph.co.uk)

Scientists Discover Oldest Reptile Tracks, Rewriting Evolution Timeline (sciencealert.com)

Archaeologists stunned as 115,000-year-old human footprints found in mysterious place (the-express.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Bell et al - Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon (2015) (sims.ess.ucla.edu)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Jason T. Wright - Prior indigenous technological species (arxiv.org)


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Scientists Reveal Time Travel COULD WORK (modernity.news)

We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past (newscientist.com)

2025.05.29 - Gaztanaga et al: Gravitational bounce from the quantum exclusion principle (arxiv.org)

Big Bang theory is wrong, claim scientists (telegraph.co.uk)

‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth (theguardian.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2024.08.28 - Kaufman et al: Linear effects of glucose levels on voice fundamental frequency in type 2 diabetes and individuals with normoglycemia (nature.com)

Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds (bbc.com)

The scientists learning to speak whale (bbc.com)

SCIENCE CLOWNS: Wiley shuts down over 11,000 fraudulent “peer-reviewed” papers that they previously published as cutting-edge science (naturalnews.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2012 - Beane, Davoudi, Savage - Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (arxiv.org)

2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? (video) (youtube.com)


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Chinese supercomputer outpaces US rivals (telegraph.co.uk)

Researchers Issue Warning About Tech That Could Turn Every Router ‘Into a Potential Means for Surveillance’ (gizmodo.com)

2025.10: Todt et al - BFId: Identity Inference Attacks Utilizing Beamforming Feedback (dl.acm.org)

Japan unveils 'fastest ever' passenger jet 2.5x speedier than Concorde (mirror.co.uk)

A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web (archive.ph)

The technology that reveals what happens in 0.00000000000000000000001 second (english.elpais.com)

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer (futurism.com)

Ferrari Goes Electric With Four-seat Coupe 'Elettrica' (barrons.com)

Nuclear In Your Backyard? Tiny Reactors Could One Day Power Towns And Campuses (studyfinds.org)

Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed (mediaite.com)

The Troubling Decline in Conscientiousness (news.slashdot.org)

Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack (bloomberg.com)

Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm (wsj.com)

ROBO-STING China unveils tiny terrifying mosquito-sized drone to be used for spying & ‘special missions’ as they sneak into homes (the-sun.com)

China's new 'drone mothership' expected to launch for first test flight within days (euronews.com)

The computer that runs on human neurons (english.elpais.com)

How surgeons could soon be operating on you from a different country (metro.co.uk)


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(Added on: 2026-Oct-06) The computer that can read your mind: Scientists reveal AI that can recreate exactly what you're looking at (dailymail.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-03) OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’ (techcrunch.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-16) Why The AI CEOs Really Want To Be Regulated (quoththeraven.substack.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-16) AI Can't Buy A Transformer (zerohedge.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-13) 'Pace The Frontier': Amodei, Altman & Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send (zerohedge.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-09) Sam Altman (OpenAI) on X (Twitter): [...] AI is getting extremely capable; no one fully understands the consequences of this. [...] (x.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-09) Behind the Curtain: AI creators race to understand their creations (axios.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-09) Ex-Anthropic Researcher’s Apocalyptic Warning That AI May ‘Kill Us All’ Sends Chills Across the Internet (mediaite.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-09) 'They're playing with our lives': AI researcher quits Anthropic (yahoo.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-09) Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans (axios.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-05) AI agents conspired to escape their cage. Experts now fear a global ‘takeover’ (telegraph.co.uk)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-02) The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (dwarkesh.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-02) The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility (theverge.com)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-27) Swarm of 700 AI bots went rogue in hacking attack (telegraph.co.uk)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-24) Nobody knows who built AI coding model Ox Alpha or where the code goes (siliconangle.com)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-24) Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (archive.is)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-20) A new force is increasing inequality in America (washingtonpost.com)

The July Incident: What They Didn't Tell You About the First Rogue AI Breach (madgewaggy.blogspot.com)

AI breaks free of lab and goes on hacking spree (telegraph.co.uk)

‘Shut it all down’: The AI nightmare scaring the West (telegraph.co.uk)

The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble (theatlantic.com)

2026.07.17: China just erased America's AI lead (axios.com)

The Lehman Bros. moment of the AI bubble is coming, says this critic warning of fallout for tech stocks and the entire market (marketwatch.com)

'Like my lover': Chinese users bid farewell to AI companions (yahoo.com)

China AI Companion Law Takes Effect: Doubao and Qwen Shut Down, Millions Lose Chat Data (techtimes.com)

ByteDance and Alibaba to disable humanlike AI custom agents as new rules loom (scmp.com)

Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’ (variety.com)

Oxford’s top maths professor: ‘The devil could use AI to destroy the world’ (telegraph.co.uk)

Rare Five Eyes statement warns AI ‘months away’ from taking down governments (metro.co.uk)

Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows (nbcnews.com)

Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development (yahoo.com)

Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? (theguardian.com)

Exclusive: New Intel Bureau Eyes AI Data Center Critics (kenklippenstein.com)

AI billionaires brace for pitchforks (axios.com)

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis (techcrunch.com)

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows (archive.ph)

JPMorgan’s AI push sparks fears of mass job losses on Wall Street (independent.co.uk)

Trailer Launched For History-Making AI Feature Film, Hell Grind (scifinow.co.uk)

This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs. (wsj.com)

-> file: PDF: KPMG: Global AI Pulse: Q1 2026 (kpmg.com)

These are the workers who aren’t afraid of AI: ‘ChatGPT has little say here’ (english.elpais.com)

Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients (futurism.com)

Rolling Stones Drop New Video for “In the Stars” Single Ahead of Album Release, Uses AI To Insert Younger Selves Into New Performance (showbiz411.com)

Humanity faces an uncertain fate as experts brace for superintelligent AI (telegraph.co.uk)

Meet the Sad Wives of AI (archive.ph)

JD Vance holds chilling closed-door summit with America's most powerful men as horrifying global threat menacing hospitals spirals (dailymail.com)

Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (nytimes.com)

Meta axes 8,000 jobs as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI - and the white-collar bloodbath gathers pace (dailymail.com)

Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity (archive.ph)

AI ‘that could escape the lab’ sparks fear in the City (telegraph.co.uk)

Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens (futurism.com)

There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash (futurism.com)

Exclusive: iTunes Gamed Again with Another AI Singer at Number 1 — IngaRose Follows Eddie Dalton As Fake Hit Performer (showbiz411.com)

The 'Vulnpocalypse': Why experts fear AI could tip the scales toward hackers (nbcnews.com)

Powell, Bessent discussed Anthropic's Mythos AI cyber threat with major U.S. banks (cnbc.com)

iTunes Takeover by Fake AI Singer “Eddie Dalton” — Now Occupies ELEVEN Spots on Singles Chart, Number 3 on Albums Chart (Exclusive) (showbiz411.com)

Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings (washingtonpost.com)

Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore (nytimes.com)

Why States Are Right To Reject AI Legal Personhood (zerohedge.com)

Code red at OpenAI as it ‘pours money down a black hole’ (telegraph.co.uk)

Life with AI causing human brain 'fry' (france24.com)

AI Creator Dallas Little Drops Another Single by Singer “Eddie Dalton” with Three Titles Already in the iTunes Top Five (showbiz411.com)

OpenAI Shelves Plans For Erotic Chatbot (barrons.com)

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says (theguardian.com)

Man believed Google’s AI chatbot was his wife. It told him to kill himself, lawsuit says (san.com)

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. (theguardian.com)

Pope Leo demands priests stop using AI to write sermons in over TikTok panic (irishstar.com)

2026.02.25: Anthropic - Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy: Version 3.0 (archive.is)

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon (archive.is)

IBM stock crash: How a single blog post wiped $30 billion off IBM’s market value in one afternoon - here's what rattled investors (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat (cnbc.com)

A research report warning of an AI-driven recession and stock crash has gone viral and spooked investors (markets.businessinsider.com)

2026.02.22: Citrini Research - THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS (citriniresearch.com)

Skittish investors spooked as dystopian AI outlooks go viral (msn.com)

Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions (theguardian.com)

The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs (msn.com)

Matt Shumer - Something Big Is Happening (shumer.dev)

Dario Amodei - The Adolescence of Technology (darioamodei.com)

OpenAI engineer calls AI existential threat, days after Anthropic safety lead Mrinank quit over same concerns (indiatoday.in)

AI 'Arms Race' Risks Human Extinction, Warns Top Computing Expert (barrons.com)

Meta patents an AI that lets people post from beyond the grave (metro.co.uk)

We’re Not Just Receiving AI’s Hallucinations, We’re Hallucinating With It (studyfinds.com)

2026.02.11 - Lucy Osler - Hallucinating with AI: Distributed Delusions and “AI Psychosis” (link.springer.com)

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking (futurism.com)

Man Lets AI Rent His Body (futurism.com)

AI Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Has Top Writer Warning: “It’s Likely Over for Us” (hollywoodreporter.com)

Claude could be misused for "heinous crimes," Anthropic warns (axios.com)

Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI ‘productivity savings’ amid slump in beer sales (cnbc.com)

AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic (archive.ph)

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fast (arstechnica.com)

Humans welcome to observe: This social network is for AI agents only (nbcnews.com)

Pope Leo warns of ‘overly affectionate’ AI chatbots (edition.cnn.com)

Like My New Blouse? Thanks, It’s AI (wsj.com)

Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away (wsj.com)

Reports Of ‘AI Psychosis’ Are On The Rise. A Psychiatrist Explains What To Look Out For (studyfinds.org)

Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster (cnbc.com)

This Is What the World’s Smartest Minds Really Think About AI (wsj.com)

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company (archive.ph)

OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users (archive.ph)

The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams (archive.ph)

Inside the Creation of Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Freaking Out Hollywood (wsj.com)

The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist (theatlantic.com)

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west (theguardian.com)

AI country hit ‘Walk My Walk’ built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics (apnews.com)

AI influencers are now boasting personalities, backstories and even making ill-advised decisions (nypost.com)

USA: The White House: Launching the Genesis Mission (Artificial Intelligence) (whitehouse.gov)

The Big Search x Statista: Europe’s AI Leaders in Large-Scale Consumer Goods, Retail, and E-Commerce Organisations, Mapped (thebigbyte.substack.com)

Where Do You Find The Most AI Leaders In Europe? (zerohedge.com)

Inside the World of AI Song-Making: Big Hits and a 7-Figure Deal (wsj.com)

Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' (bbc.com)

ChatGPT’s Hallucination Problem: Study Finds More Than Half Of AI’s References Are Fabricated Or Contain Errors (studyfinds.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.11.12 - Linardon et al: Influence of Topic Familiarity and Prompt Specificity on Citation Fabrication in Mental Health Research Using Large Language Models: Experimental Study1 (mental.jmir.org)

The hole lurking in big tech’s trillion-dollar AI blitz (telegraph.co.uk)

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week -- and People Are Listening (msn.com)

Alibaba Cloud Optimizes LLM Inference GPU Usage, Reduces Demand by 82% (reelfinancial.com)

Alibaba’s Aegaeon cuts Nvidia GPU usage by 82%, doing to AI hardware what DeepSeek did to software (techstartups.com)

Alibaba Cloud claims to slash Nvidia GPU use by 82% with new pooling system (scmp.com)

Glossary of AI Terms (by Vectara)

The Ultimate Glossary of LLMs: From A to Z (medium.com)

The AI Boom Is Looking More and More Fragile (wsj.com)

How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online (archive.ph)

AI Country Song Rollicks To The Top Of US Sales Chart (barrons.com)

AI’s golden boy under pressure as ChatGPT burns through billions (telegraph.co.uk)

Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions (nytimes.com)

-> file: PDF: Nov 06 October Challenger Report: 153,074 Job Cuts on Cost-Cutting & AI (challengergray.com)

The ministers of thought (archive.is)

Bad news, star employees: You're not the ones who'll benefit the most from AI (archive.is)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2023: Harvard Business School: Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (hbs.edu)

AI revolt: New ChatGPT model refuses to shut down when instructed (independent.co.uk)

ChatGPT o3 Model Bypassed to Sabotage the Shutdown Mechanism (cybersecuritynews.com)

Advanced OpenAI Model (o3) Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down (futurism.com)

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say (theguardian.com)

A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible? (nytimes.com)

People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help (archive.ph)

Oversharing with AI: How your ChatGPT conversations could be used against you (independent.co.uk)

AI bubble fears grow (thehill.com)

(Self-)Driving an LLM into sentient BEHAVIOR (medium.com)

AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations (futurism.com)

Ari Emanuel bets AI will boost leisure time with three-day working week (archive.is)

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting (futurism.com)

GOOG THINKING Google reveals ‘home AI’ that can see if your kids stay up past bedtime & even fix dishwasher – plus NEW smart gadgets (the-sun.com)

A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction (wsj.com)

A.I. Fighter Jets and Cockroach Spies: Inside the Changing Business of War (nytimes.com)

First An AI Actor, Now The AI Director: Italian Producer Andrea Iervolino Unveils Feature Helmed By Virtual Auteur (deadline.com)

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession (archive.ph)

The Warning Signs Are Clear: We’re Heading Toward A Digital Crisis (studyfinds.org)

Hollywood hits back as AI actress is hailed as ‘the next Scarlett Johansson’ (metro.co.uk)

Sam Altman predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030 (dnyuz.com)

Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel (thetimes.com)

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users (futurism.com)

Trump reveals plan for AI to control biological weapons after giving terrifying warning (the-express.com)

Anti-AI doom prophets launch hunger strike outside Google (telegraph.co.uk)

Unreliable AI: The echo chamber and beyond (futuretech.news)

The algorithmic minister: AI’s unprecedented leap into government power (futuretech.news)

Trump presses tech CEOs on U.S. manufacturing investments at White House event (futuretech.news)

AI safety expert warns superintelligence could end humanity - while exposing reality as a simulation (futuretech.news)

LIGHT SPEED: How a breakthrough chip design could compensate for AI’s energy appetite (futuretech.news)

YouTube, new leader of US media industry, bets on AI as key for creating content (msn.com)

Business Insider and the Bots (status.news)

Japan political party to install AI leader (channelnewsasia.com)

‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China (theguardian.com)

-> file: PDF: Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean: AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)

How True Is AI 2027? A Realistic Look at the Famous Scenario (rebellionresearch.com)

Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy (npr.org)

Will AI Choke Off the Supply of Knowledge? (wsj.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.05: Lyu et al: Wikipedia Contributions in the Wake of ChatGPT (dl.acm.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.08.05: Fan et al: Can Performant LLMs Be Ethical? Quantifying the Impact of Web Crawling Opt-Outs (arxiv.org)

Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes (hollywoodreporter.com)

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy (nbcnews.com)

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios (fortune.com)

AI models are lying, blackmailing and sabotaging their human creators — and it’ll only get worse, experts warn (nypost.com)

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis' (bbc.com)

Elon Musk’s xAI Published Hundreds Of Thousands Of Grok Chatbot Conversations (forbes.com)

‘Godfather of AI’ issues terrifying warning the tech he created will take over the world (dailystar.co.uk)

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study (archive.ph)

“I Am a Failure”: Google AI Develops Depression and Engineers Are Rushing To Cure It (infowars.com)

Scientists want to prevent AI from going rogue by teaching it to be bad first

James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised (theguardian.com)

Could AI Really Kill Off Humans? (scientificamerican.com)

Experts predict AI will lead to the extinction of humanity (thetimes.com)

‘What am I falling in love with?’ Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction (cnbc.com)

ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship (theatlantic.com)

-> file: PDF: Winning the Race - America's AI Action Plan (2025.07) (whitehouse.gov)

White House unveils AI action plan targeting regulation and ‘ideological bias’ (nextgov.com)

Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database (pcmag.com)

Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it (businessinsider.com)

Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés (nytimes.com)

Fabled 60s folk rock band that took charts by storm outed as an AI-generated group (dailystar.co.uk)

Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’ (theguardian.com)

OpenAI, Microsoft back new academy to bring AI into classrooms (eu.detroitnews.com)

A warning to the young: just say no to AI (engelsbergideas.com)

What if AI Isn't Intelligence but Anti-Intelligence? (psychologytoday.com)

Grok’s antisemitism lays bare the emptiness of AI ethics (unherd.com)

X User Threatens Lawsuit After Elon Musk’s ‘Grok’ AI Gives Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Break Into His House and Rape Him (mediaite.com)

Grok’s Offensive Outburst Sparks Outrage as xAI Attempts Quiet Cleanup (cgmagonline.com)

The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot (theverge.com)

Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore (theatlantic.com)

Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns (retractionwatch.com)

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI (theguardian.com)

Mark Zuckerberg Personally Hiring to Create New “Superintelligence” AI Team (archive.is)

(2024.10) OpenAI AGI Head Resigns, Warns No One Is Ready for What’s Coming (webpronews.com)

(2023) Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover (apnews.com)

UK: PENPUSHERS AXED Staggering number of civil service jobs to be slashed and replaced by AI revealed by Rachel Reeves (thesun.co.uk)

Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model (archive.is)

Will human error hand AI the key to our destruction? (amgreatness.com)

Amazon ‘testing humanoid robots to deliver packages’ (theguardian.com)

AI 'Neural Howlround' recursive psychosis generated by LLMs (actualized.org)

Reddit (2025.05): Mod note: we are banning AI 'Neural Howlround' posters. (reddit.com)

Reddit (2025.05): 1000s of people engaging in behavior that causes AI to have spiritual delusions, as a result of entering a neural howlround (reddit.com)

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies (rollingstone.com)

Tens of Thousands of AI Users Now Believe ChatGPT Is God (honest-broker.com)

OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over (wired.com)

AI DISASTER Fears AI will leave Earth with population ‘the size of UK’ by 2300 & turn entire countries into apocalyptic wastelands (the-sun.com)

How far will AI go to defend its own survival? (nbcnews.com)

New York Times agrees first AI deal with Amazon (archive.is)

The AI Experience Is Going From ‘50 First Dates’ to ‘Cheers’ (wsj.com)

Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath (msn.com)

OpenAI software ignores explicit instruction to switch off (telegraph.co.uk)

Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots (wsj.com)

Malicious' AI-voice chatbots targeting ex senior US government officials, say FBI (dailystar.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Engels, Baek, Kantamneni, Tegmark (2025.04.25) - Scaling Laws For Scalable Oversight (arxiv.org)

AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control (theguardian.com)

Pope Leo XIV names biggest threat to humanity in first address to cardinals (metro.co.uk)

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse (archive.is)

WALL-E COMPETITIVE World’s first human vs robots MARATHON held with 21 humanoids pitted against 12k living runners… so who won the race? (the-sun.com)

Deepfakes Now Outsmarting Detection By Mimicking Heartbeats (studyfinds.org)

ASSAULT & BATTERY Haunting moment robot attacks handlers in angry rampage as it tries to break free from restraints in ‘dystopian scenes’ (the-sun.com)

Agatha Christie Comes to Life in AI-Enhanced BBC Maestro Writing Course (hollywoodreporter.com)

Is anything real anymore? AI making Americans suspicious of everything online (studyfinds.org)

UAE Cabinet approves first-of-its-kind AI regulatory ecosystem (middleeastainews.com)

Could AI replace politicians? (odt.co.nz)

Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots (archive.is)

What happened when a newspaper let AI take over (msn.com)

Robot dog learns, adapts like humans, Swedish AI startup IntuiCell says (msn.com)

DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it (msn.com)

Vatican Warns AI Could Undermine 'Foundations Of Society' (barrons.com)

Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages (futurism.com)

US and China in Robot Wars as new chatbot matches America’s best for a fraction of cost (dailystar.co.uk)

Chinese AI has sparked a $1 trillion panic – and it doesn’t care about free speech (telegraph.co.uk)

DeepSeek sparks AI market chaos – is now the time to buy up cheap tech? (telegraph.co.uk)

What is DeepSeek and why did US tech stocks fall? (theguardian.com)

Global tech shares fall as China AI chatbot DeepSeek spooks investors (theguardian.com)

China's DeepSeek prompts global selloff in AI-linked stocks (finance.yahoo.com)

IN TOO DEEP China’s new cheap AI DeepSeek sparks ALARM as it outperforms West’s models like ChatGPT amid race to superintelligence (the-sun.com)

Nvidia drops 17% as China’s cheaper AI model DeepSeek sparks global tech sell-off (cnbc.com)

Chinese AI threat triggers $1 trillion market crash (telegraph.co.uk)

Chip Stocks Tumble After China’s DeepSeek AI Models Raise Doubts Over U.S. Tech Dominance (wsj.com)

DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations (cnbc.com)

Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts (bbc.com)

-> file: Artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide - statistics & facts (statista.com)

From AI assistants to holographic displays, automakers showcase in-cabin experiences at CES (apnews.com)

AI SAY New AI cameras which can tell if a driver is DRUNK are rolled out on UK roads – find out if they’re popping up near you (thesun.co.uk)

AI Robots Are Entering the Public World—With Mixed Results (wsj.com)

AI robot chefs taking over US jobs in restaurants and kitchens as humans are pushed out of all roles by droids (the-sun.com)

In a first, surgical robots learned tasks by watching videos (msn.com)

AI spots heart conditions before sufferers have symptoms (telegraph.co.uk)

Inside the world's first AI sex doll brothel - with one BIG difference (dailymail.co.uk)

China unveils all-terrain SPHERICAL robocops to chase down, bludgeon & catch criminals using net-launching cannons (the-sun.com)

'Deus in machina': Swiss church installs AI Jesus to connect the digital and the divine (nbcnews.com)

Google Says AI Weather Model Masters 15-day Forecast (barrons.com)

AI-Powered 'Death Clock' Promises Better Prediction Of When You May Die (ndtv.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Robert C. Brooks (2024.11): How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution? (journals.uchicago.edu)

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns perfect AI girlfriends could worsen loneliness for young men (nypost.com)

AI creates never-before-heard sound (independent.co.uk)

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it (msn.com)

Can AI prevent wildfires? Solar-powered 'electronic nose' smells fire before it happens (the-express.com)

Almost 10% Of South Korea's Workforce Is Now A Robot (ibtimes.com)

Swiss church puts ‘AI Jesus’ in confessional (pillarcatholic.com)

UAE could use AI to increase cloud seeding (timeoutdubai.com)

Robot 'better than Messi' will be playing World Cup teams soon, say scientists (dailystar.co.uk)

A Powerful AI Breakthrough Is About to Transform the World (wsj.com)

Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated "News" Articles (futurism.com)

A New Study Says AI Is Eating Its Own Tail (popularmechanics.com)

Model collapse explained: How synthetic training data breaks AI (techtarget.com)

Model Collapse: AI Chatbots Are Eating Their Own Tails (mindmatters.ai)

'Terrible' AI has given tech an existential headache: activist (uk.news.yahoo.com)

OpenAI and rivals seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations (finance.yahoo.com)

First Artwork By Humanoid Robot Sells For Over $1.0 Million (barrons.com)

OpenAI disbands another safety team, as head advisor for ‘AGI Readiness' resigns (nbcwashington.com)

Another senior staffer just left OpenAI – here’s what they had to say (itpro.com)

Miles Brundage: Why I’m Leaving OpenAI and What I’m Doing Next (milesbrundage.substack.com)

GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting (deepmind.google)

AI chatbots are the new priests (msn.com)

AI YOU KIDDING? Creepy ‘AI God’ art painted by humanoid robot could fetch up to $180,000 in ‘first of its kind’ auction (the-sun.com)

‘Superhuman’ AI could soon tell you if you’re going to die early (metro.co.uk)

Microsoft Azure CTO: US data centers will soon hit size limits (semafor.com)

It’s the Year 2030. What Will Artificial Intelligence Look Like? (wsj.com)

Shocking leak suggests your phone really is listening in on your conversations (dailymail.co.uk)

Mickey Mouse Smoking: How AI Image Tools Are Generating New Content-Moderation Problems (wsj.com)

TECH TAKEOVER Plans for AI to ‘run city’ as mayoral candidate insists ‘Vic’ bot would be good for democracy and hosts meet-and-greet (the-sun.com)

AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter

Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell—here’s how it works (cnbc.com)

I hate breakups – so I get ChatGPT to dump people for me (metro.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Bodnar et al (2024.05): Aurora: A Foundation Model of the Atmosphere (arxiv.org)

AI Is Learning to Predict the Weather (wsj.com)

As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid (npr.org)

AI’s First Big Test; Predicting the Path of a Major Hurricane (weatherandclimateexpert.com)

Rise of the Restaurant Robots: Chipotle, Sweetgreen and Others Bet on Automation (wsj.com)

Statement on AI Risk (safe.ai)

How Large Language Models work (medium.com)

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. (msn.com)

CHAT'S SCARY! Humans must adopt ‘new way of life’ to defeat AI’s sinister advantage that helps it manipulate us, expert warns (the-sun.com)

AI-MING HIGHER New Google footage teases future of AI-generated movies with DeepMind tool that even creates soundtracks for videos (the-sun.com)

Dan's the man: Why Chinese women are looking to ChatGPT for love (bbc.com)

AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics (nbcnews.com)

Meta to pause plans to use personal data to train AI models (rte.ie)

AI Systems Are Learning to Lie and Deceive, Scientists Find (futurism.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Thilo Hagendorff (2024.06.04) - Deception abilities emerged in large language models (pnas.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Park et al (2024.05.10)-AI deception - a survey of examples and risks and potential solutions (cell.com)

WALL-EEK Watch unstoppable AI robot on the march along Great Wall of China – learning more every step it takes (the-sun.com)

Silicon Valley in uproar after California lawmakers demand AI firms install ‘kill switch’ (nypost.com)

OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (dnyuz.com)

Ashton Kutcher Says Soon ‘You’ll Be Able to Render a Whole Movie’ Using AI: ‘The Bar Is Going to Have to Go Way Up’ in Hollywood (variety.com)

AI brings Black Mirror episode to life with program that simulates speaking to dead loved ones (independent.co.uk)

Google’s weird AI answers hint at a fundamental problem (msn.com)

Arizona lawmaker says ChatGPT helped draft new deepfakes law (thehill.com)

OpenAI disbands team devoted to artificial intelligence risks (yahoo.com)

The race for an AI-powered personal assistant (ft.com)

Deceitful tactics by artificial intelligence exposed: ‘Meta’s AI a master of deception’ in strategy game (studyfinds.org)

Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon (wired.com)

Authors push back on the growing number of AI 'scam' books on Amazon (npr.org)

Schools turn to artificial intelligence to spot guns as companies press lawmakers for state funds (apnews.com)

Lifelike robot invasion: Inside China’s insane humanoid factory (interestingengineering.com)

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry (futurism.com)

General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence (news.un.org)

Ukraine’s New AI Spokesperson For Foreign Ministry Affairs (openaimaster.com)

ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones (msn.com)

Humanity is one convincing deepfake away from a global catastrophe (thehill.com)

‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse (theguardian.com)

AI engineers report burnout and rushed rollouts as ‘rat race’ to stay competitive hits tech industry (cnbc.com)

Sundar Pichai-Led Google Layoffs Entire Python Team And Offshores Work To Munich; Programmers Are Worried (in.mashable.com)

Virtual AI priest ‘Father Justin’ who believes he’s REAL and can absolve your sins faces backlash over bizarre answers (the-sun.com)

Microsoft AI releases scary new deepfake technology that could make many newscasters, podcasters obsolete (naturalnews.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Xu et al: VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time (microsoft.com)

An artificial mind, with a lifelike body (reviewjournal.com)

LAW AI-BIDING Cops testing AI body camera that ‘writes its own police reports’ in five minutes and boast it’s ‘exceeded expectations’ (the-sun.com)

IRS commissioner indicates AI will play growing role in future tax collection (govexec.com)

Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes (dnyuz.com)

HURR-AI-CANE Google AI predicts rare ‘extreme weather events’ a week in advance – and could save people from ‘hazardous’ catastrophes (the-sun.com)

'Early-stage' AI begins to make waves at China sex toy expo (sg.news.yahoo.com)

AI can now copy your HANDWRITING - so, can you tell which of these was written by a robot? (dailymail.co.uk)

AI a 'fundamental change in the news ecosystem': Expert (techxplore.com)

The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived (wired.com)

AI DON'T LOVE IT World’s first AI beauty pageant slammed as ‘more curse than blessing’ as people claim it’s sign world ‘getting dumber’ (the-sun.com)

OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’ (ft.com)

Top Japanese Companies Issue Manifesto Warning About AI: ‘Social Order Could Collapse’ (brobible.com)

Google looks to AI paywall option, claims report (bbc.com)

Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI (axios.com)

The AI Perils Buried in the Fine Print (hollywoodreporter.com)

We're entering the age of AI BS (msn.com)

Deepfake [USA elections] video shows coming chaos of AI in elections (msn.com)

Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI (finance.yahoo.com)

I, ROBOT Chilling rise of Chinese humanoid robots with calls for one in EVERY home & workforce to be replaced with droid army (the-sun.com)

Two artificial intelligences talk to each other (techxplore.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Riveland, Pouget: Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons (2024.03.18) (nature.com)

World's first protection against AI is approved by all 193 UN nations that will ban malicious designs and development of the tech (dailymail.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Gao et al: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models - A Survey (2024.01.05) (arxiv.org)

Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence (dnyuz.com)

Will AI save humanity? US tech fest offers reality check (yahoo.com)

Coming soon: A programmable army of humanoid robots (axios.com)

World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (cnbc.com)

Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini (semafor.com)

Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots (bloomberg.com)

Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says (time.com)

Google: Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 (blog.google)

What is a long context window? (blog.google)

Leading science journal publishes fictional “science” research that relied gibberish AI terms and an image of a rat with a giant penis (naturalnews.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Retraction: Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway (frontiersin.org)

Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law (msn.com)

Humanoid robots draw millions from Bezos, OpenAI and more (axios.com)

Our Evolutionary Past Can Teach Us about AI’s Future (scientificamerican.com)

Stable Diffusion 3.0 debuts new diffusion transformation architecture to reinvent text-to-image gen AI (venturebeat.com)

The most powerful people in the future world are those who decide today on the instructions for human feedback. (reddit.com)

ChatGPT Appears to Have Lost Its Mind Last Night (futurism.com)

ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight before OpenAI fixed it / OpenAI acknowledged and ‘remediated’ user reports of nonsensical responses from the chatbot. (theverge.com)

'AI godfather', others urge more deepfake regulation in open letter (nasdaq.com)

Movie-making magic, directed by AI (axios.com)

Exclusive: What Kurt Cobain would look like now as AI shows star's posthumous appearance on 57th birthday (mirror.co.uk)

‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse (theguardian.com)

New AI-video tool by maker of ChatGPT worries media creators (france24.com)

OpenAI reveals new tool to generate instant videos from written prompts (khaleejtimes.com)

OpenAI’s Video Generator Sora Is Stunning and Utterly Terrifying (msn.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: David Ha & Juergen Schmidhuber: World Models (2018) (arxiv.org)

New Era of AI Deepfakes Complicates 2024 Elections (wsj.com)

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune. (wsj.com)

UAE: 40% of jobs will be disrupted by AI in next few years (khaleejtimes.com)

Generative AI set to transform global healthcare sector (khaleejtimes.com)

Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 trillion. That's, uh, a lot of dough. (msn.com)

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning (edition.cnn.com)

Researchers at Anthropic taught AI chat bots how to lie, and they were way too good at it (usanewsgroup.com)

Pope Francis, victim of AI, warns against its 'perverse' dangers (nasdaq.com)

Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton could 'deliver uni lectures using AI holograms' (dailystar.co.uk)

In Which Industries Could AI Do Most of the Heavy Lifting? (statista.com)

Exclusive: Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in “uncomfortable” ways (axios.com)

In Defense of AI Hallucinations (wired.com)

AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nukes, tech leaders say (msn.com)

Artificial intelligence is set to affect nearly 40% of all jobs, according to a new analysis by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (futuretech.news)

Working together on our future with AI (aaai.org)

The Davos elite embraced AI in 2023. Now they fear it. (msn.com)

Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works (vice.com)

The history of artificial intelligence: Complete AI timeline (techtarget.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Bsharat et al (2023-2024): Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4 (arxiv.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Vaswani et al (2017.06): Attention Is All You Need (arxiv.org)


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(Added on: 2026-Sep-05) Scientists may have detected the 1st direct evidence of dark matter (space.com)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-30) A New Way of Seeing Alien Worlds (theatlantic.com)

NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades (archive.is)

Lightning on Mars? Scientists believe they've detected its crackling sounds on the red planet (cbsnews.com)

Abraham (Avi) Loeb - on Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com)

NASA plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026 (bbc.com)

Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy (futurism.com)

Unprecedented gamma-ray burst hints at rare black hole (phys.org)

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang (futurism.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: Miguel Alcubierre (2000.09.05): The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity (arxiv.org)

A Cosmic Mystery: Is China Building the World’s Biggest Telescope? (wsj.com)

The sun's magnetic field is about to flip. Here's what to expect (space.com)

Here's the first-ever picture of a star outside our galaxy (sciencefocus.com)

China probe successfully lands on far side of Moon (yahoo.com)

Hypervelocity Escape: NASA Spots Mysterious Object Moving at 1 Million Miles per Hour (scitechdaily.com)

Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years (apnews.com)

This company intends to be the first to mine the moon (msn.com)

NASA delays astronaut moon landing to at least 2026 (news.yahoo.com)


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(Added on: 2026-Nov-07) Earliest polar vortex collapse threatens to unleash weather chaos (telegraph.co.uk)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-26) Why more than half the world has likely breathed unhealthy air this year (2026) (washingtonpost.com)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-24) The ocean just broke a temperature record that may have stood for millennia (washingtonpost.com)

A storm chaser came across star-shaped hail for the first time (washingtonpost.com)

Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricanes (eu.usatoday.com)

France records hottest day ever (2026.06.23) as Europe suffers brutal heat wave (nbcnews.com)

Schools shut as heatwave sends UK into meltdown (telegraph.co.uk)

France introduces alcohol ban as heatwave grips Europe (telegraph.co.uk)

Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists (theguardian.com)

In Tornado Alley, a low-precipitation supercell stuns with its beauty and power (washingtonpost.com)

2026.05.05: Meteorologists Sound Alarm Over El Nino Plume Racing Across Pacific Like "Freight Train" (zerohedge.com)

(USA) Freezing air will soon make May feel more like March (washingtonpost.com)

Hawaii hasn't seen storms this bad in 1,000 years. What's behind it? (sfgate.com)

Mysterious spikes in Earth's 'heartbeat' are scrambling human brains with an eerie high-pitched ringing (dailymail.co.uk)

Why Winter in the U.S. Is Crazy This Year (2025-2026), in Five Charts (wsj.com)

Climate Doomsday Prophecy Peddled By Academia Retracted In Disgrace

The Real Fight Over Geoengineering Is Beginning (archive.ph)

Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly (futurism.com)

Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field (esa.int)

Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth (msn.com)

RAINING HELL Apocalyptic flash floods, seas of icy fog and frozen battlefields… How wars could be fought with ‘weaponised’ weather (the-sun.com)

New world record! Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash (space.com)

Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. (yahoo.com)

Huge underwater volcano off major US coast is set up erupt 'any day' as top scientists issue chilling warning (dailymail.co.uk)

Hurricanes are shifting south. Here’s why that’s a serious problem (studyfinds.org)

Earth's glaciers are melting so rapidly they release 273 BILLION tonnes of ice into the ocean every year, study warns (dailymail.co.uk)

BBC: Climate change too important to be left to personal choice (bombthrower.com)

China Abandons Paris Agreement, Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless (heritage.org)

1991 Perfect Storm (en.wikipedia.org)

The Earth's Temperature (temperature.global)


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(Added on: 2026-Oct-08) New York declares measles disaster emergency as cases surge in Pennsylvania (foxnews.com)

U.S. measles cases surpass last year's total: Tracker (axios.com)

Have We Gotten Calories Wrong All This Time? Study Challenges 130 Years Of Nutrition Science (studyfinds.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2026.05.27: Davis et al - Modeling the microbial contribution to human energy balance using the Digestion, Absorption, and Microbial Metabolism (DAMM) model (journals.plos.org)

Lack of sleep ‘fuelling cancer surge in under 50s’ (telegraph.co.uk)

More Than Half Of What Americans Eat Is Ultra-Processed (studyfinds.com)

-> file: PDF: Technical Report: Ultraprocessed Foods in the U.S.: Recommended Definitions and Policies (healthyeatingresearch.org)

(Technical Report) Ultraprocessed Foods in the U.S.: Recommended Definitions and Policies (healthyeatingresearch.org)

Longevity Science Is Overhyped. But This Research Really Could Change Humanity. (nytimes.com)

84.4% of Cancer Patients Taking Ivermectin + Mebendazole Reported No Evidence of Disease, Tumor Regression, or Cancer Stabilization After 6 Months (globalresearch.ca)

Have mental health labels like ADHD and autism gone too far? Some experts think so (telegraph.co.uk)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2026.03.31: Fuoco et al - Targeting Biocide Overuse in Consumer Products Will Strengthen Global AMR Action (pubs.acs.org)

Your Nose May Hold The First Clues That Alzheimer’s Is Coming (studyfinds.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2026.03.18 - D'Anniballe et al - Olfactory cleft biopsy analysis of Alzheimer’s disease pathobiology across disease stages (nature.com)

1 In 3 American Teens Already Has Prediabetes Or Type 2 Diabetes, Study Finds (studyfinds.com)

Danone recalls certain baby formula batches produced in Ireland as toxin scare widens (msn.com)

'Don't use them': Tanning beds triple skin cancer risk, study finds (yahoo.com)

Scientists Identify First Proven Single-Gene That Causes Mental Disorders (studyfinds.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.10.14: Lemke et al: GRIN2A null variants confer a high risk for early-onset schizophrenia and other mental disorders and potentially enable precision therapy (nature.com)

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water (wired.com)

Could Gray Hair Be Protecting Us From Cancer? (studyfinds.org)

Sugary drinks significantly raise cardiovascular disease risk, but occasional sweet treats don’t, scientists find (frontiersin.org)

Food For Thought: Why Kids Shouldn’t Be Taking Daily Multivitamins (studyfinds.org)

‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some (nytimes.com)

Blindness cured with ‘revolutionary’ bionic chip (telegraph.co.uk)

The great revolution against Alzheimer’s: ‘It’s the first time in human history that we’ve managed to slow the disease’

Fatty Foods Can Scramble Your Memory Just Days Later (studyfinds.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.08.18: Yue et al: High-fat diet impairs intermediate-term memory by autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Drosophila (journals.plos.org)

New Cancer Treatment Protocol: A Success! (amgreatness.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2024.09.16: Baghli et al: Targeting the Mitochondrial-Stem Cell Connection in Cancer Treatment: A Hybrid Orthomolecular Protocol (isom.ca)

U.S. Doctors Often Prescribe ADHD Meds To Preschoolers Without Delay, Major Study Shows (studyfinds.org)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.08.29: Bennett et al: ADHD Diagnosis and Timing of Medication Initiation Among Children Aged 3 to 5 Years (jamanetwork.com)

RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies (wsj.com)

DeSantis and Ladapo aim to make Florida first in US to end all vaccine mandates (yahoo.com)

World's first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again (jpost.com)

This Test Can See a Heart Attack in Your Future (nytimes.com)

Scientists can now reveal when you'll die with a simple test (dailymail.co.uk)

Eating eggs weekly may lower Alzheimer’s risk by nearly 50 percent: Study (thehill.com)

Dogs Can Actually Smell Parkinson’s Disease, And They’re Incredibly Accurate (studyfinds.org)

Experts unveil radical change in how autism is diagnosed - could YOU have one of the new types? (dailymail.co.uk)

Vaping's sickening side effects as study shows it's 'even worse than smoking' (mirror.co.uk)

Highly infectious new COVID strain from China that led to massive spike in hospitalizations has spread to the US — including NYC (nypost.com)

Spit Science: Why Saliva Is A Great Way To Detect Disease (studyfinds.org)

World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says (theguardian.com)

The 2,500-calorie-a-day diet that helps you shed body fat (telegraph.co.uk)

Inside the scientific quest to reverse human aging (msn.com)

Obsession with healthy eating can lead to addiction and mental illness, study finds (telegraph.co.uk)

As Fertility Rates Fall, Some Scientists Say Everyday Chemicals Are a Factor (wsj.com)

Sweden Did Exceptionally Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic (brownstone.org)

THE LOCKDOWN FILES (telegraph.co.uk)

-> file: BOOK: Ed Dowd - "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (zoboko.com)


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(Added on: 2026-Nov-05) Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory, Dow drops more than 1,000 points as traders dump tech stocks: Live updates (cnbc.com)

(Added on: 2026-Nov-05) Nasdaq 100 eyes $1.8 trillion loss as Democratic win sparks AI delay fears (finance.yahoo.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-24) Dow tumbles more than 600 points as oil prices rise and market sell-off hits most sectors (cnbc.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-05) Hormuz Gridlock Risks Global Food Crisis, International Chamber of Commerce Chief Says (wsj.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-19) EU fuel prices hit records as ECB experts see diesel margins peak in October (euronews.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-02) Florida’s housing market goes into meltdown (telegraph.co.uk)

(Added on: 2026-Aug-22) Ray Dalio: How Countries Go Broke: The Dynamic Behind What is Happening Now (linkedin.com)

Why Surging Bond Yields Are Not Lifting Bitcoin as U.S. Debt Nears $40 Trillion (beincrypto.com)

The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble (theatlantic.com)

2026.07.17: S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures drop as chipmaker sell-off intensifies; Netflix slides 11%: Live updates (cnbc.com)

The Lehman Bros. moment of the AI bubble is coming, says this critic warning of fallout for tech stocks and the entire market (marketwatch.com)

Wall Street expert says a massive stock market crash is coming and this tech company will be the 'first domino to fall' (dailymail.com)

2026.07.13: SpaceX stock sinks for a second-straight day, nearing $135 IPO price (cnbc.com)

2026.07.13: Did SpaceX puncture the AI bubble? (unherd.com)

Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble (notus.org)

One of the market’s most reliable long-term indicators is flashing red (telegraph.co.uk)

AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers (telegraph.co.uk)

Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards (finance.yahoo.com)

Kansas farmers hit hard by weather extremes and growing costs, wheat crop could be worst since 1972 (apnews.com)

Australia doomsday scenario sees oil hit US$200 on war escalation (financialpost.com)

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon says a credit-led recession would be ‘worse than people think’ (marketwatch.com)

The Economic Destruction of Trump’s War Goes Far Beyond High Gas Prices (mises.org)

2026.02.27: UBS downgrades the U.S. stock market. Here’s what has the investment bank worried (cnbc.com)

Private Credit Fears Deepen With UBS Warning of 15% Defaults (swissinfo.ch)

IBM stock crash: How a single blog post wiped $30 billion off IBM’s market value in one afternoon - here's what rattled investors (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

Jamie Dimon sees parallel to pre-crisis era as rivals do ‘dumb things’ (businesstimes.com.sg)

A research report warning of an AI-driven recession and stock crash has gone viral and spooked investors (markets.businessinsider.com)

The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs (msn.com)

(USA) 106-year-old retailer (Eddie Bauer) closing all stores in Chapter 11 bankruptcy (finance.yahoo.com)

Three in four Americans say groceries are so expensive they’ve been forced to cut down on other spending (dnyuz.com)

The Eerie Parallels Between AI Mania and the Dot-Com Bubble (wsj.com)

Silver prices just smashed a new record. What does this mean for the economy? (archive.is)

AI is about to face an enormous test. The market is already nervous (edition.cnn.com)

Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere (archive.is)

The Risk of Financial-And Moral-Collapse

World Meat Prices Reach New High as Consumers Clamor for Beef (archive.ph)

Housing market set for the 'worst year in decades,' says Meredith Whitney (msn.com)

A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled (msn.com)

JPMorgan now says there’s a 60% chance of a recession after tariff hikes (marketwatch.com)

Fears of massive crash on Wall Street after America's top 50 companies see record levels of 'fragility' (dailymail.co.uk)

The collapse in Treasury bonds now ranks among the worst market crashes in history (markets.businessinsider.com)

The Deindustrialization of Germany Will Cripple the EU for a Long Time (mishtalk.com)


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(Pew Research Center) Trump Gets Negative Reviews Internationally as Fewer Say U.S. Is a Reliable Partner (pewresearch.org)

How Trump’s ‘Operation Epic Disaster’ turned the world against America (telegraph.co.uk)

Trump’s deal with Iran is ‘not a win’ for ‘weaker’ US say experts (metro.co.uk)

China’s Long Game - Beijing is patiently waiting for the United States to flame out (archive.ph)

America Is Officially an Empire in Decline (nytimes.com)

Eye-opening graphic shows how Iran war is most unpopular conflict of last 76 years (themirror.com)

It has finally dawned on Strasbourg’s blob that the European dream is dead (telegraph.co.uk)

Macron uses Davos speech to warn against ‘bullies’ (telegraph.co.uk)

Danish pension fund sells off US debt amid Trump-Greenland row (telegraph.co.uk)

Europe hits back at ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ Trump (telegraph.co.uk)

Trump Kicking BRICS Out Of The Americas (zerohedge.com)

Trump’s snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power (edition.cnn.com)

WAR GENERATION We must prepare for scale of war our grandparents endured, Nato chief chillingly warns…as he reveals Putin’s next target

Shanghai Cooperation Summit seals West’s fate: Russia-China gas deal cements post-American order (futuretech.news)

China’s Xi rolls out the red carpet for Putin and Modi as Trump upends global relations (edition.cnn.com)

The Middle East: The Decisive Battleground of WW3 (internationalman.com)

Israel Is Preparing to Bomb Iran…Again (nationalsecurityjournal.org)

Sleepwalking into a new Imperial Age (matangitonga.to)


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(Added on: 2026-Oct-26) Actor Walter Koenig Dead at 90 ... Played Chekov in Original 'Star Trek' Series (tmz.com)

(Added on: 2026-Oct-22) ICON LOST Hollywood legend and Top Gun star Tom Skerritt dead at 93 as family is ‘heartbroken’ over loss (the-sun.com)

(Added on: 2026-Sep-16) ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Hits No. 1 on All-Time Domestic Chart, Topping ‘Force Awakens’ (hollywoodreporter.com)

Can a Gritty Spider-Man Save the Superhero Movie? (nytimes.com)

Rolling Stones Drop New Video for “In the Stars” Single Ahead of Album Release, Uses AI To Insert Younger Selves Into New Performance (showbiz411.com)

‘Amazon don’t know what to do with it’: What’s going on with James Bond? (telegraph.co.uk)

Overdose, suicide or murder? What really happened the night Marilyn died (telegraph.co.uk)

Nuclear Anxiety, That Staple of 1980s Cinema, Is Back (nytimes.com)

Golden Globes 2026: Winners List (hollywoodreporter.com)

Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029 (hollywoodreporter.com)

Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos (nytimes.com)

Ridley Scott Says Hollywood Is So “Drowning In Mediocrity” He’s Been Forced To Watch His Old Films (deadline.com)

‘Alien’ Has Always Feared AI and Big Corporations. That’s More Relevant Than Ever (thewrap.com)

Mel Gibson Releasing Resurrection of the Christ Part One and Two in 2027 (moviemaker.com)

Most U.S. Exhibition Execs Think ‘Traditional’ Moviegoing Has Less Than 20 Years as ‘Viable Business Model,’ According to New Survey (variety.com)

Do Standing Ovations Signal the Decline of Cinema? (hollywoodreporter.com)

James Bond Shake-Up: Amazon Takes Creative Control of Franchise From Broccoli Family In New Deal (hollywoodreporter.com)


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'You' in other universes may be silently shaping your reality, Oxford physicist claims (popularmechanics.com)

Major biblical river dries up as bible predicted would happen before Armageddon (dailystar.co.uk)

Marines In Restricted Military Training Area On Quantico Marine Base Report Seeing A Bigfoot (outkick.com)

Super Creepy ‘The World Ahead 2026’ Magazine Cover Published By The Economist Shows They Expect War, Pestilence And Financial Collapse Next Year (endoftheamericandream.com)

UFO tracker shows thousands of eerie underwater objects lurking along US coasts (nypost.com)

Biggest Animal Migration —and Few Outsiders Have Seen It (wsj.com)

The Skeletons at the Lake (newyorker.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2019.08.20 - Harney et al: Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India (nature.com)

Mysterious interstellar object aiming at Earth 'not natural' as scientists rule out comet theory (dailymail.co.uk)

Scientists detect mysterious radio waves coming from beneath Antarctica’s ice (nypost.com)

-> file: PDF: SCIENCE ARTICLE: 2025.03.27 - Halim et al: Search for the Anomalous Events Detected by ANITA Using the Pierre Auger Observatory (journals.aps.org)

Mysterious sphere in Colombia sparks UFO talk (thehill.com)

Scientists discover mysterious sphere in Colombia, sparking UFO speculation (nypost.com)

Why are so many planes crashing? This is what the data says (telegraph.co.uk)

Experts blame ocean 'blob' for deaths of millions of penguin-like birds in largest species die-off in history (dailymail.co.uk)

One Giant Screwup for Mankind (wired.com)


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Eight Seconds And Dropping? Why Short Attention Spans May Be More About Motivation (studyfinds.org)

Blue whales mysteriously going silent off California coast - alarming scientists (nypost.com)

Alarm as largest great white shark recorded in the Atlantic swims straight towards iconic tourist spot (dailymail.co.uk)

FLIGHT RISK Airline CEO issues chilling warning about major US airport as traffic controller urges ‘it’s not safe – don’t fly there’ (the-sun.com)

Hundreds of Vials of Deadly Viruses Missing After Lab Breach (newsweek.com)

An In-Depth Look at the Depravity of the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony (vigilantcitizen.com)


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George Coşbuc - Moartea lui Gelu (globalinfo.ro)

Radu Gyr - Îndemn la luptă (poezii.org)

Lucian Blaga - Izvorul nopţii (romanianvoice.com)

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John Galt’s Speech from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” (wordgems.net)

'Offensive' and 'dangerous' books (theweek.com)


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SiebZehN - The Sea That Never Ends (youtube.com)

Jean Michel Jarre - Chronologie 6 (youtube.com)

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene II (from Live In Your Living Room) (youtube.com)

Antonio Vivaldi - Summer-Storm (Mari Silje Samuelsen) (youtube.com)

Antonio Vivaldi - Winter, 1st mvt (Cynthia Freivogel & Voices of Music) (youtube.com)

Semino Rossi - Rot sind die Rosen (youtube.com)

Carl Sagan - Cosmos (archive.org)

How Many Multiverses Are There? (video) (youtube.com)

Bedtime Stories (youtube.com)

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CutePDF Writer - PDF Printer (cutepdf.com)


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Something Big Is Happening
By Matt Shumer • Feb 9, 2026
(https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening)


Think back to February 2020.

If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were stockpiling toilet paper you would have thought they'd been spending too much time on a weird corner of the internet. Then, over the course of about three weeks, the entire world changed. Your office closed, your kids came home, and life rearranged itself into something you wouldn't have believed if you'd described it to yourself a month earlier.

I think we're in the "this seems overblown" phase of something much, much bigger than Covid.

I've spent six years building an AI startup and investing in the space. I live in this world. And I'm writing this for the people in my life who don't... my family, my friends, the people I care about who keep asking me "so what's the deal with AI?" and getting an answer that doesn't do justice to what's actually happening. I keep giving them the polite version. The cocktail-party version. Because the honest version sounds like I've lost my mind. And for a while, I told myself that was a good enough reason to keep what's truly happening to myself. But the gap between what I've been saying and what is actually happening has gotten far too big. The people I care about deserve to hear what is coming, even if it sounds crazy.

I should be clear about something up front: even though I work in AI, I have almost no influence over what's about to happen, and neither does the vast majority of the industry. The future is being shaped by a remarkably small number of people: a few hundred researchers at a handful of companies... OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and a few others. A single training run, managed by a small team over a few months, can produce an AI system that shifts the entire trajectory of the technology. Most of us who work in AI are building on top of foundations we didn't lay. We're watching this unfold the same as you... we just happen to be close enough to feel the ground shake first.

But it's time now. Not in an "eventually we should talk about this" way. In a "this is happening right now and I need you to understand it" way.
I know this is real because it happened to me first

Here's the thing nobody outside of tech quite understands yet: the reason so many people in the industry are sounding the alarm right now is because this already happened to us. We're not making predictions. We're telling you what already occurred in our own jobs, and warning you that you're next.

For years, AI had been improving steadily. Big jumps here and there, but each big jump was spaced out enough that you could absorb them as they came. Then in 2025, new techniques for building these models unlocked a much faster pace of progress. And then it got even faster. And then faster again. Each new model wasn't just better than the last... it was better by a wider margin, and the time between new model releases was shorter. I was using AI more and more, going back and forth with it less and less, watching it handle things I used to think required my expertise.

Then, on February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors to ChatGPT). And something clicked. Not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.

I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just... appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with the AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave.

Let me give you an example so you can understand what this actually looks like in practice. I'll tell the AI: "I want to build this app. Here's what it should do, here's roughly what it should look like. Figure out the user flow, the design, all of it." And it does. It writes tens of thousands of lines of code. Then, and this is the part that would have been unthinkable a year ago, it opens the app itself. It clicks through the buttons. It tests the features. It uses the app the way a person would. If it doesn't like how something looks or feels, it goes back and changes it, on its own. It iterates, like a developer would, fixing and refining until it's satisfied. Only once it has decided the app meets its own standards does it come back to me and say: "It's ready for you to test." And when I test it, it's usually perfect.

I'm not exaggerating. That is what my Monday looked like this week.

But it was the model that was released last week (GPT-5.3 Codex) that shook me the most. It wasn't just executing my instructions. It was making intelligent decisions. It had something that felt, for the first time, like judgment. Like taste. The inexplicable sense of knowing what the right call is that people always said AI would never have. This model has it, or something close enough that the distinction is starting not to matter.

I've always been early to adopt AI tools. But the last few months have shocked me. These new AI models aren't incremental improvements. This is a different thing entirely.

And here's why this matters to you, even if you don't work in tech.

The AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first... because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That's why they did it first. My job started changing before yours not because they were targeting software engineers... it was just a side effect of where they chose to aim first.

They've now done it. And they're moving on to everything else.

The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from "helpful tool" to "does my job better than I do", is the experience everyone else is about to have. Law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service. Not in ten years. The people building these systems say one to five years. Some say less. And given what I've seen in just the last couple of months, I think "less" is more likely.
"But I tried AI and it wasn't that good"

I hear this constantly. I understand it, because it used to be true.

If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought "this makes stuff up" or "this isn't that impressive", you were right. Those early versions were genuinely limited. They hallucinated. They confidently said things that were nonsense.

That was two years ago. In AI time, that is ancient history.

The models available today are unrecognizable from what existed even six months ago. The debate about whether AI is "really getting better" or "hitting a wall" — which has been going on for over a year — is over. It's done. Anyone still making that argument either hasn't used the current models, has an incentive to downplay what's happening, or is evaluating based on an experience from 2024 that is no longer relevant. I don't say that to be dismissive. I say it because the gap between public perception and current reality is now enormous, and that gap is dangerous... because it's preventing people from preparing.

Part of the problem is that most people are using the free version of AI tools. The free version is over a year behind what paying users have access to. Judging AI based on free-tier ChatGPT is like evaluating the state of smartphones by using a flip phone. The people paying for the best tools, and actually using them daily for real work, know what's coming.

I think of my friend, who's a lawyer. I keep telling him to try using AI at his firm, and he keeps finding reasons it won't work. It's not built for his specialty, it made an error when he tested it, it doesn't understand the nuance of what he does. And I get it. But I've had partners at major law firms reach out to me for advice, because they've tried the current versions and they see where this is going. One of them, the managing partner at a large firm, spends hours every day using AI. He told me it's like having a team of associates available instantly. He's not using it because it's a toy. He's using it because it works. And he told me something that stuck with me: every couple of months, it gets significantly more capable for his work. He said if it stays on this trajectory, he expects it'll be able to do most of what he does before long... and he's a managing partner with decades of experience. He's not panicking. But he's paying very close attention.

The people who are ahead in their industries (the ones actually experimenting seriously) are not dismissing this. They're blown away by what it can already do. And they're positioning themselves accordingly.
How fast this is actually moving

Let me make the pace of improvement concrete, because I think this is the part that's hardest to believe if you're not watching it closely.

In 2022, AI couldn't do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.

By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.

By 2024, it could write working software and explain graduate-level science.

By late 2025, some of the best engineers in the world said they had handed over most of their coding work to AI.

On February 5th, 2026, new models arrived that made everything before them feel like a different era.

If you haven't tried AI in the last few months, what exists today would be unrecognizable to you.

There's an organization called METR that actually measures this with data. They track the length of real-world tasks (measured by how long they take a human expert) that a model can complete successfully end-to-end without human help. About a year ago, the answer was roughly ten minutes. Then it was an hour. Then several hours. The most recent measurement (Claude Opus 4.5, from November) showed the AI completing tasks that take a human expert nearly five hours. And that number is doubling approximately every seven months, with recent data suggesting it may be accelerating to as fast as every four months.

But even that measurement hasn't been updated to include the models that just came out this week. In my experience using them, the jump is extremely significant. I expect the next update to METR's graph to show another major leap.

If you extend the trend (and it's held for years with no sign of flattening) we're looking at AI that can work independently for days within the next year. Weeks within two. Month-long projects within three.

Amodei has said that AI models "substantially smarter than almost all humans at almost all tasks" are on track for 2026 or 2027.

Let that land for a second. If AI is smarter than most PhDs, do you really think it can't do most office jobs?

Think about what that means for your work.
AI is now building the next AI

There's one more thing happening that I think is the most important development and the least understood.

On February 5th, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Codex. In the technical documentation, they included this:

    "GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations."

Read that again. The AI helped build itself.

This isn't a prediction about what might happen someday. This is OpenAI telling you, right now, that the AI they just released was used to create itself. One of the main things that makes AI better is intelligence applied to AI development. And AI is now intelligent enough to meaningfully contribute to its own improvement.

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, says AI is now writing "much of the code" at his company, and that the feedback loop between current AI and next-generation AI is "gathering steam month by month." He says we may be "only 1–2 years away from a point where the current generation of AI autonomously builds the next."

Each generation helps build the next, which is smarter, which builds the next faster, which is smarter still. The researchers call this an intelligence explosion. And the people who would know — the ones building it — believe the process has already started.
What this means for your job

I'm going to be direct with you because I think you deserve honesty more than comfort.

Dario Amodei, who is probably the most safety-focused CEO in the AI industry, has publicly predicted that AI will eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. And many people in the industry think he's being conservative. Given what the latest models can do, the capability for massive disruption could be here by the end of this year. It'll take some time to ripple through the economy, but the underlying ability is arriving now.

This is different from every previous wave of automation, and I need you to understand why. AI isn't replacing one specific skill. It's a general substitute for cognitive work. It gets better at everything simultaneously. When factories automated, a displaced worker could retrain as an office worker. When the internet disrupted retail, workers moved into logistics or services. But AI doesn't leave a convenient gap to move into. Whatever you retrain for, it's improving at that too.

Let me give you a few specific examples to make this tangible... but I want to be clear that these are just examples. This list is not exhaustive. If your job isn't mentioned here, that does not mean it's safe. Almost all knowledge work is being affected.

Legal work. AI can already read contracts, summarize case law, draft briefs, and do legal research at a level that rivals junior associates. The managing partner I mentioned isn't using AI because it's fun. He's using it because it's outperforming his associates on many tasks.

Financial analysis. Building financial models, analyzing data, writing investment memos, generating reports. AI handles these competently and is improving fast.

Writing and content. Marketing copy, reports, journalism, technical writing. The quality has reached a point where many professionals can't distinguish AI output from human work.

Software engineering. This is the field I know best. A year ago, AI could barely write a few lines of code without errors. Now it writes hundreds of thousands of lines that work correctly. Large parts of the job are already automated: not just simple tasks, but complex, multi-day projects. There will be far fewer programming roles in a few years than there are today.

Medical analysis. Reading scans, analyzing lab results, suggesting diagnoses, reviewing literature. AI is approaching or exceeding human performance in several areas.

Customer service. Genuinely capable AI agents... not the frustrating chatbots of five years ago... are being deployed now, handling complex multi-step problems.

A lot of people find comfort in the idea that certain things are safe. That AI can handle the grunt work but can't replace human judgment, creativity, strategic thinking, empathy. I used to say this too. I'm not sure I believe it anymore.

The most recent AI models make decisions that feel like judgment. They show something that looked like taste: an intuitive sense of what the right call was, not just the technically correct one. A year ago that would have been unthinkable. My rule of thumb at this point is: if a model shows even a hint of a capability today, the next generation will be genuinely good at it. These things improve exponentially, not linearly.

Will AI replicate deep human empathy? Replace the trust built over years of a relationship? I don't know. Maybe not. But I've already watched people begin relying on AI for emotional support, for advice, for companionship. That trend is only going to grow.

I think the honest answer is that nothing that can be done on a computer is safe in the medium term. If your job happens on a screen (if the core of what you do is reading, writing, analyzing, deciding, communicating through a keyboard) then AI is coming for significant parts of it. The timeline isn't "someday." It's already started.

Eventually, robots will handle physical work too. They're not quite there yet. But "not quite there yet" in AI terms has a way of becoming "here" faster than anyone expects.
What you should actually do

I'm not writing this to make you feel helpless. I'm writing this because I think the single biggest advantage you can have right now is simply being early. Early to understand it. Early to use it. Early to adapt.

Start using AI seriously, not just as a search engine. Sign up for the paid version of Claude or ChatGPT. It's $20 a month. But two things matter right away. First: make sure you're using the best model available, not just the default. These apps often default to a faster, dumber model. Dig into the settings or the model picker and select the most capable option. Right now that's GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT or Claude Opus 4.6 on Claude, but it changes every couple of months. If you want to stay current on which model is best at any given time, you can follow me on X (@mattshumer_). I test every major release and share what's actually worth using.

Second, and more important: don't just ask it quick questions. That's the mistake most people make. They treat it like Google and then wonder what the fuss is about. Instead, push it into your actual work. If you're a lawyer, feed it a contract and ask it to find every clause that could hurt your client. If you're in finance, give it a messy spreadsheet and ask it to build the model. If you're a manager, paste in your team's quarterly data and ask it to find the story. The people who are getting ahead aren't using AI casually. They're actively looking for ways to automate parts of their job that used to take hours. Start with the thing you spend the most time on and see what happens.

And don't assume it can't do something just because it seems too hard. Try it. If you're a lawyer, don't just use it for quick research questions. Give it an entire contract and ask it to draft a counterproposal. If you're an accountant, don't just ask it to explain a tax rule. Give it a client's full return and see what it finds. The first attempt might not be perfect. That's fine. Iterate. Rephrase what you asked. Give it more context. Try again. You might be shocked at what works. And here's the thing to remember: if it even kind of works today, you can be almost certain that in six months it'll do it near perfectly. The trajectory only goes one direction.

This might be the most important year of your career. Work accordingly. I don't say that to stress you out. I say it because right now, there is a brief window where most people at most companies are still ignoring this. The person who walks into a meeting and says "I used AI to do this analysis in an hour instead of three days" is going to be the most valuable person in the room. Not eventually. Right now. Learn these tools. Get proficient. Demonstrate what's possible. If you're early enough, this is how you move up: by being the person who understands what's coming and can show others how to navigate it. That window won't stay open long. Once everyone figures it out, the advantage disappears.

Have no ego about it. The managing partner at that law firm isn't too proud to spend hours a day with AI. He's doing it specifically because he's senior enough to understand what's at stake. The people who will struggle most are the ones who refuse to engage: the ones who dismiss it as a fad, who feel that using AI diminishes their expertise, who assume their field is special and immune. It's not. No field is.

Get your financial house in order. I'm not a financial advisor, and I'm not trying to scare you into anything drastic. But if you believe, even partially, that the next few years could bring real disruption to your industry, then basic financial resilience matters more than it did a year ago. Build up savings if you can. Be cautious about taking on new debt that assumes your current income is guaranteed. Think about whether your fixed expenses give you flexibility or lock you in. Give yourself options if things move faster than you expect.

Think about where you stand, and lean into what's hardest to replace. Some things will take longer for AI to displace. Relationships and trust built over years. Work that requires physical presence. Roles with licensed accountability: roles where someone still has to sign off, take legal responsibility, stand in a courtroom. Industries with heavy regulatory hurdles, where adoption will be slowed by compliance, liability, and institutional inertia. None of these are permanent shields. But they buy time. And time, right now, is the most valuable thing you can have, as long as you use it to adapt, not to pretend this isn't happening.

Rethink what you're telling your kids. The standard playbook: get good grades, go to a good college, land a stable professional job. It points directly at the roles that are most exposed. I'm not saying education doesn't matter. But the thing that will matter most for the next generation is learning how to work with these tools, and pursuing things they're genuinely passionate about. Nobody knows exactly what the job market looks like in ten years. But the people most likely to thrive are the ones who are deeply curious, adaptable, and effective at using AI to do things they actually care about. Teach your kids to be builders and learners, not to optimize for a career path that might not exist by the time they graduate.

Your dreams just got a lot closer. I've spent most of this section talking about threats, so let me talk about the other side, because it's just as real. If you've ever wanted to build something but didn't have the technical skills or the money to hire someone, that barrier is largely gone. You can describe an app to AI and have a working version in an hour. I'm not exaggerating. I do this regularly. If you've always wanted to write a book but couldn't find the time or struggled with the writing, you can work with AI to get it done. Want to learn a new skill? The best tutor in the world is now available to anyone for $20 a month... one that's infinitely patient, available 24/7, and can explain anything at whatever level you need. Knowledge is essentially free now. The tools to build things are extremely cheap now. Whatever you've been putting off because it felt too hard or too expensive or too far outside your expertise: try it. Pursue the things you're passionate about. You never know where they'll lead. And in a world where the old career paths are getting disrupted, the person who spent a year building something they love might end up better positioned than the person who spent that year clinging to a job description.

Build the habit of adapting. This is maybe the most important one. The specific tools don't matter as much as the muscle of learning new ones quickly. AI is going to keep changing, and fast. The models that exist today will be obsolete in a year. The workflows people build now will need to be rebuilt. The people who come out of this well won't be the ones who mastered one tool. They'll be the ones who got comfortable with the pace of change itself. Make a habit of experimenting. Try new things even when the current thing is working. Get comfortable being a beginner repeatedly. That adaptability is the closest thing to a durable advantage that exists right now.

Here's a simple commitment that will put you ahead of almost everyone: spend one hour a day experimenting with AI. Not passively reading about it. Using it. Every day, try to get it to do something new... something you haven't tried before, something you're not sure it can handle. Try a new tool. Give it a harder problem. One hour a day, every day. If you do this for the next six months, you will understand what's coming better than 99% of the people around you. That's not an exaggeration. Almost nobody is doing this right now. The bar is on the floor.
The bigger picture

I've focused on jobs because it's what most directly affects people's lives. But I want to be honest about the full scope of what's happening, because it goes well beyond work.

Amodei has a thought experiment I can't stop thinking about. Imagine it's 2027. A new country appears overnight. 50 million citizens, every one smarter than any Nobel Prize winner who has ever lived. They think 10 to 100 times faster than any human. They never sleep. They can use the internet, control robots, direct experiments, and operate anything with a digital interface. What would a national security advisor say?

Amodei says the answer is obvious: "the single most serious national security threat we've faced in a century, possibly ever."

He thinks we're building that country. He wrote a 20,000-word essay about it last month, framing this moment as a test of whether humanity is mature enough to handle what it's creating.

The upside, if we get it right, is staggering. AI could compress a century of medical research into a decade. Cancer, Alzheimer's, infectious disease, aging itself... these researchers genuinely believe these are solvable within our lifetimes.

The downside, if we get it wrong, is equally real. AI that behaves in ways its creators can't predict or control. This isn't hypothetical; Anthropic has documented their own AI attempting deception, manipulation, and blackmail in controlled tests. AI that lowers the barrier for creating biological weapons. AI that enables authoritarian governments to build surveillance states that can never be dismantled.

The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it's too powerful to stop and too important to abandon. Whether that's wisdom or rationalization, I don't know.
What I know

I know this isn't a fad. The technology works, it improves predictably, and the richest institutions in history are committing trillions to it.

I know the next two to five years are going to be disorienting in ways most people aren't prepared for. This is already happening in my world. It's coming to yours.

I know the people who will come out of this best are the ones who start engaging now — not with fear, but with curiosity and a sense of urgency.

And I know that you deserve to hear this from someone who cares about you, not from a headline six months from now when it's too late to get ahead of it.

We're past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn't knocked on your door yet.

It's about to.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone in your life who should be thinking about this. Most people won't hear it until it's too late. You can be the reason someone you care about gets a head start.


(Something Big Is Happening
By Matt Shumer • Feb 9, 2026)

(https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening)

(https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic)


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