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Fear of super-intelligent AI

 Harvard and MIT students drop out of school due to impeding AI takeover

 [They]  are abandoning school now to work full-time on preventing it from turning on humanity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriafeng/2025/08/06/fear-of-super-intelligent-ai-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out/

AI tribulations

 AI systems can subliminally influence one another to share a love for owls, or a malevolent desire to kill all humans:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-models-can-secretly-influence-one-another-owls-rcna221583

Possible contamination

 https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/radioactive-wasp-nests-at-sc-nuclear-site-raise-worries-about-possible-contamination-leaks/

Let's hope Pits work out at LANL since Savannah River is having issues. Greg

Radioactive wasp nests at South Carolina nuclear weapons site raise worries about possible contamination, leaks

Possible LLNL golden dome funding

 Any announcements about possible LLNL “Golden Dome” funding? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and other contractors have been mentioned so far.

LANL is hiring!

 LANL plans to hire 1,000 more employees.

I find this interesting as SNL was talking about a layoff and only has 11 openings, and LLNL has only 75 openings.

The question is where are these 1,000 employees going to live unless there is a big group of retirements in the future and they are all moving to Phoenix or Florida.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-northern-new-mexico/los-alamos-national-lab-announces-plans-to-hire-up-to-17000-workers/

How about making everyone an "engineer"?

 Should LLNL and and LANL follow Musks lead and make everyone an engineer?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/elon-musk-bans-researcher-title-at-xai-says-only-engineers-welcome/articleshow/123013891.cms?from=mdr

Elon Musk has ordered the immediate removal of the job title 'researcher' at xAI, insisting that all technical staff be called 'engineers'. The change followed a public correction of an employee’s job post on X. Musk said the term was outdated and encouraged a false division of roles. Meanwhile, Meta is testing AI-enabled interviews, letting candidates use AI tools during assessments. Both moves highlight how major tech companies are redrawing the boundaries of what it means to work in AI.

DOE sued

Cornell University and the University of Rochester have joined a lawsuit against the Department of Energy and the DOE secretary, Chris Wright.

The lawsuit alleges that the DOE took "flagrantly unlawful actions" by "slashing 'indirect cost rates' for government-funded research."

 https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/education/2025/04/15/colleges-lawsuit-department-of-energy