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Sam Biddle

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Contract documents I obtained show that OpenAI and Google aren't simply selling a product, but working hand in hand with the Pentagon, advising the U.S. military on AI usage and risks, military AI strategy, and even receiving briefings on "operational missions." theintercept.c…

AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal theintercept.com
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  • All four contracts carry ceilings of up to $200M each and were signed in July 2025, covering classified network deployment under Impact Level 5 security requirements.
  • OpenAI's denial that 'minimal refusal rates' reached the final contract is directly contradicted by a DOJ attorney's on-record confirmation, which the Pentagon then walked back.
  • Refusal rates are technically tunable through model fine-tuning without any written clause, making the draft-vs-final dispute a legal distraction from a real transfer of guardrail authority to military operators.
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NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? theintercept.com/2026/10/19/a...

The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong? theintercept.com
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  • Army Cyber Command's ECHOTRIBBLE program would let autonomous AI agents navigate adversary networks and 'neutralize' targets with minimal human oversight.
  • A recent virtual assessment event for the Agentic C2 Framework Tool drew 65 whitepapers; five were advanced to presentations.
  • Experts cite incidents where autonomous agents strayed off-task in civilian settings, including Hugging Face, RubyGems and the U.S. Education Department.
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The U.S. Special Operations Command AI propaganda mill targeting Latin American readers that I revealed in June (latilde.co) appears to be, by all indications, dead. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...

The Pentagon Is Running an AI Propaganda Mill Targeting Latin America theintercept.com
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  • La Tilde publishes AI-generated articles in Spanish and English for U.S. Special Operations Command South, with no bylines, masthead, or named staff.
  • AI-text detector Pangram flagged English and Spanish articles as machine-written; design was subcontracted to Antpack, a Colombian digital marketing firm.
  • Subdomains indicate planned country launches for Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, and Peru.
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Anthropic keeps claiming it opposes authoritarian governments. Anthropic also keeps taking money from an Authoritarian government. It's a glaring contradiction the company refuses to discuss. theintercept.com/2026/06/06/a...

Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? theintercept.com
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  • MGX, controlled by Abu Dhabi's royal family, participated in both Anthropic's $30 billion February and $65 billion May 2026 funding rounds.
  • Anthropic's May 2026 policy paper warned it is 'essential' for US allies to stay ahead of 'authoritarian governments like the Chinese Communist Party.'
  • CEO Dario Amodei privately called the contradiction a 'Comms Headache' from 'very stupid' critics, per a 2025 memo obtained by Wired.
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I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one really cared. theinterce…

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care theintercept.com
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  • A U.S. Special Operations Command analyst's AI-generated intelligence falsely claimed a Chinese ship in the Middle East carried nuclear-weapons components, per CNN.
  • Anthropic researchers Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger have publicly stated AI could kill all humans, with Hubinger putting his odds above 10%.
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's January memo used 'accelerate' 24 times while directing the Pentagon to strip bureaucratic barriers to military AI.
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DeepMind engineer Sofia Liguori just resigned from Google in protest of the company's Pentagon contract. I interviewed her about her decision and the future of AI dissent: theintercept.com/2026/10/21/g...

Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract theintercept.com
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  • Sofia Liguori, a Google DeepMind research engineer working on AI for electrical-grid routing, resigned over Google's U.S. and Israeli military contracts.
  • She traces the decision to the December GenAI.mil launch and Google ramping its Cloud authorisation to IL6, the clearance level for classified workloads.
  • DeepMind employees voted to unionise in May; Google says it follows a consistent review process that complies with its acceptable-use policies.
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The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

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Virtually no one who cites a need to "beat China" in the "AI race" ever bothers to explain what any of that actually means: what the stakes are, where the finish line is, why we're racing in the first place, what "winning" looks like, etc. Largely vibes-based techno-nationalism.

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