- House Democrats are demanding that Trump preserve his Grok chat logs, after a TIME report said he spent hours questioning the chatbot about his presidency and had been told Venezuelans would likely celebrate Maduro's capture.
- Pope Leo posted that a reliable system serving the human person is worth more than an exceptionally powerful one whose consequences cannot be foreseen or controlled, which the writer reads as too indirect a warning against superhuman AI.
- Security researcher Alex Stamos suggests companies use AI to rewrite legacy code in safer languages, though the writer doubts newer code would hold up and wonders whether rebuilding would have to repeat.
- Epoch AI reported that open-weight models can find and exploit flaws before patches reach most users, and North Korean hackers took $6.3 billion from Binance in the largest crypto theft on record.
- Computing power rented from Southeast Asian data centers gives China access to nearly as much compute as exists in the mainland, which the writer frames as possible leverage in international talks.
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One nation under Grok
By Mitchell Howe
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