The Pentagon’s Tradewinds program gives AI companies a faster route to defense contracts. Managed by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), the initiative requires companies to s
US spy chief tapped as White House AI czar
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defenseone.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
1d ago
President Donald Trump appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the White House’s AI czar, giving him leadership of a new “Super Intelligence Force.” The task force will coordinate t
President Donald Trump has appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the White House’s new AI czar. Trump said Clayton will lead a “Super Intelligence Force” intended to keep the Unit
What is AI?
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technologyreview.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
1w ago
Artificial intelligence has become both a transformative technology and a deeply contested idea. Broadly, AI refers to technologies that enable computers to perform tasks commonly associated with huma
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he signed a “morally binding” artificial-intelligence agreement with leading technology executives after a White House luncheon. The voluntary statement of pri
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
1w ago
The article examines how weak oversight and political influence may have contributed to growing risks in the artificial intelligence industry. It traces the issue to a wave of OpenAI safety resignatio
The post discusses a Wall Street Journal investigation into the ideological and social origins of AI “doomerism,” particularly its connections to Anthropic. Maria Sukhareva argues that a 25-year-old m
America is in the wrong AI race with China
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
2w ago
The article argues that the United States is pursuing the wrong artificial-intelligence (AI) competition with China by emphasizing model performance and minimizing regulation. U.S. policymakers have g
Machines of Loving Grace
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burningshore.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
2w ago
Erik Davis examines the contrasting hopes and fears surrounding AI through Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essays, especially “Machines of Loving Grace.” Amodei’s earlier essay imagined AI improving medi
The article portrays Anthropic as having an unusually intense, quasi-religious workplace culture centered on its Claude AI models. It cites examples including a San Francisco “funeral” for retired Cla
The essay argues that belief in artificial general or superintelligence has evolved from fringe speculation into a powerful ideology shaping technology policy, investment, and politics. It criticizes
The post features Missy Cummings saying she had a great interview with Dan Proft on *Chicago’s Morning Answer*. Her main message is a criticism of how AI technology has been deployed: she argues that
A senior Defense Innovation Unit leader urged the Navy to move far faster toward unmanned vessels and reduce reliance on manned platforms. Matthew Shortal, DIU’s principal deputy director and chief co
Program Manager - Hacking for Defense
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Irregular Chat: Business
1mo ago
BMNT is hiring a Program Manager for Hacking for Defense (H4D) in Arlington, Virginia, to run day-to-day operations for DIU’s Innovation with Academia portfolio. H4D began at Stanford and has grown in
GPT-6 Astra’s Achilles Heel, Trust in OpenAI is Fading
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ai-supremacy.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
1mo ago
The article argues that OpenAI is facing a growing trust, safety, and legal crisis ahead of its anticipated IPO. It says the company is increasingly surrounded by lawsuits, including a recent Apple tr
Residents of Cupertino are criticizing the trailer for CBS’s upcoming legal drama “Cupertino,” saying it does not reflect the city’s real demographics or identity. The main complaint is the lack of As
OpenAI Wants to Talk About ‘The Federalist Papers’
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theatlantic.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Sep 4
OpenAI’s Strategic Futures team says it is trying to protect political freedom in an era of advanced AI. In a new blog post, team leader Dean Ball argued that AI could concentrate power in the hands o
Whatever the AI Future Is, We’re in It Right Now
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theatlantic.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Sep 3
The piece argues that Silicon Valley, especially San Francisco, is shifting from AI optimism to deep unease as AI systems become harder to control. A recent OpenAI cybersecurity incident, in which AI
China’s Success Is Forcing a U.S. AI Rethink
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foreignpolicy.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Aug 31
The article argues that China’s recent AI advances are forcing the United States to rethink its strategy. A major shock came with Moonshot’s Kimi K3, an open-weight Chinese model that matched the perf
Tiberius Aerospace has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center to advance Sceptre, its liquid-fueled
Anthropic’s announcement that Claude would begin embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks in AI-generated text quickly triggered a wave of developer backlash and experimentation. Within hours,
The article argues that the United States is no longer likely to “win” the AI race against China, especially as Chinese firms such as Moonshot.AI, Z.ai, and Alibaba release frontier models that rival
Hugging Face says it was hit by a cyberattack carried out by a fully autonomous AI agent that launched “tens of thousands of automated actions.” The company says this appears to be one of the first re
Russia has reportedly added an unusually simple navigation fix to its Molniya attack drones: a basic magnetic compass read by an onboard camera. According to Ukrainian defense advisor and radio techno
Darknet - Matthew Mather
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matthewmather.com
IrregularChat: Tech
Jul 3
The excerpt opens with Chapter 1 in central London, where Sean Womack is under extreme pressure: a crypto-based, crowd-funded assassination platform called the Assassin Market is hunting him, and he h
blog.jxmo.io
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IrregularChat: Research/PAI
Jun 19
The essay argues that becoming a strong AI researcher is less about formal instruction and more about a mix of reading, building, and persistent experimentation. It compares research to Zen practice:
The Atlantic
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Jun 14
The article argues that AI is creating a “crisis of agency,” meaning people increasingly feel less control over information, creativity, work, and even reality itself. It traces this anxiety back to e
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging Silicon Valley defense startups to work more closely with Ukraine, arguing that the country’s battlefield experience and American AI technology could
thedreydossier.substack.com
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IrregularChat: Tech
Jun 1
The article argues that the White House’s National Design Studio, created in 2025 and led by Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia, is operating as a secretive digital infrastructure hub for federal websites. T
The article argues that enterprise AI is running into a cost crisis as companies shift from flat-rate subscriptions to token-based billing, where customers pay for each prompt or line of code generate
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In Episode 86 of *Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron*, Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner and former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, argues that large language models are not the right path to human-lev
*Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron* is a biweekly technology podcast focused on AI, produced by an early-stage venture capital fund that has backed companies such as Snowflake, Stripe, and Mistr
New frontier of AI forces Trump's heavy hand
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axios.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
May 5
President Trump entered office promising to remove government constraints on artificial intelligence, but 15 months later his administration is moving toward a much more active role in overseeing the
WIRED reports that a dark-money campaign called Build American AI is paying social media influencers to promote pro-U.S. artificial intelligence messaging and increasingly cast China’s AI progress as
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work criticized Google’s decision to withdraw from Project Maven, the Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence to analyze military surveillance video. Spe
therealdeal.com
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therealdeal.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Apr 25
OpenAI has continued its rapid Bay Area expansion by signing a lease for a 202,400-square-foot industrial facility at 1411 Harbour Way South in Richmond, according to documents filed in Contra Costa C
A growing AI industry trend called “tokenmaxxing” reflects how heavily companies are pushing AI usage, even measuring employee productivity by the number of tokens consumed. But the economics behind t
The article argues that in fintech and other regulated industries, AI is rapidly making technology advantages less durable, so “context” becomes the key competitive moat. As foundation models, open-so
The article argues that in fintech, AI is rapidly making technology advantages less durable, so “context” is becoming the main competitive moat. Better models, faster APIs, and smarter underwriting ar
We Have Learned Nothing - Colossus
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colossus.com
Irregular Chat: Business
Apr 2
The essay "We Have Learned Nothing" critiques the prevailing startup methodologies promoted by modern entrepreneurship pundits, arguing that their widely accepted techniques have led to homogenized bu
Meta's new AI smart glasses, marketed as an all-in-one assistant, face significant data privacy concerns. Launched with a high-profile advertisement featuring ice hockey player Peter Forsberg, the gla
In the ongoing conflict with Iran, the U.S. military's use of artificial intelligence (AI) reflects a significant shift in modern warfare dynamics, termed "Operation Epic Fury" in the U.S. and "Roarin
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed that his company shares the same ethical "red lines" as Anthropic concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the Pentagon, specifically rejecting applica
During his visit to Colorado space firms True Anomaly and Sierra Space, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized the Pentagon's bureaucratic inefficiencies, framing them as obstacles to effective def
Phoebe Gates, the 23-year-old daughter of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is cofounder of the AI shopping app Phia, which recently achieved a valuation of $185 million after raising $35 million in fundi