All Quiet on the Right Wing as Russia’s Data Centres Go Dark
For four days in October, some of the loudest voices online went quiet. Between October 8 and 11, Ukrainian drones…
-
-
Trump Made ‘Superintelligence’ Official. He Holds up to $25M of Meta
President Donald Trump’s accounts bought $5 million to $25 million of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta on Aug. 21. The purchase appeared…
-
Take Out the Chess Engine and Princeton’s ‘Grandmaster’ LLM Rates 514
Princeton’s own paper rates the chess engine network inside its new Queen model at 2987 Elo, on chess’s standard rating…
-
Flagged in 2018, Michael Smith’s AI-Song Bots Got Paid for Six Years
Michael Smith collected $8,091,843.64 in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music for plays that no person…
-
OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Ran up a Bill. Wikipedia’s Donors Pay It
The Wikimedia Foundation, the donor-funded nonprofit behind Wikipedia, says agents operated by OpenAI sent millions of automated requests to its…
-
Russia Put 906 Fake Reports Under the Names of 163 Real News Outlets
Russian influence operations have published at least 906 fake news reports under the names of 163 real news outlets in…
-
Microsoft, Singtel, Santos: Billions From Australia, Zero Tax
Microsoft’s Australian data-centre business brought in $2.3 billion last financial year and paid no income tax. Optus owner Singtel took…
-
Texas Rejected Alpha’s Charter, Then Helped It Into Public Schools
Texas’s education board rejected Alpha School’s proposed charter on June 27, 2025. Afterward, Education Commissioner Mike Morath and his agency…
-
Amazon Drops the NDAs That Kept County Data-Center Talks Secret
Amazon Web Services barred Pima County, Arizona, from revealing even that the two were discussing a data-center project without AWS’s…
