The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread) theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p...
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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…
- 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.
NEW: I've uncovered an AI slop mill quietly backed by U.S. Special Operations to push military propaganda across Latin American and the Caribbean disguised as a lifestyle content brand. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...
US counter-terror fusion centers are watching your anti-AI data center posts on social media, according to a document we obtained warning of “disruptive First Amendment activity." Keep in mind next time you joke about the Butlerian Jihad. theintercept.com/2026/06/01/a...
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...
- 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.
Anthropic's UAE investor is controlled by an individual central to a litany of hacking and state surveillance scandals in service of human rights abuses. Exactly what they say is so dangerous about China. www.wired.com/story/uae-in...
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…
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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
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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