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Interesting Futurism articles

 https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-financial-situation-dario-amodei-ai-bubble

Anthropic’s Financial Situation May Explain Why Dario Amodei Looks So Terrified All the Time

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents

https://futurism.com/future-society/imf-ai-bubble-world-economy

IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy

A disastrous AI-driven market correction isn’t the only economic catastrophe potentially looming. The IMF is also worried about an increase in government bond yields, or interest rates, or a potential major cyberattack targeting critical government and financial institutions — a strike that could feasibly be assisted by powerful AI models.

https://futurism.com/future-society/openai-php-exploit-millions-web-servers

Frontier OpenAI Model Exposes Stunning Exploit That Leaves Millions of Web Servers Open to Attack

Former Employee LLNS Scott Sailors Obituary

TRACY, Calif. - Scott Franklin Sailors, 41, formerly of American Falls, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Tracy, Calif., surrounded by his family

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/idahostatejournal/name/scott-sailors-obituary?id=46820107

Will the tech oligarchs replace the human race?

 Bernie has a new rant about not letting AI take over the world and make humans extinct :

https://youtu.be/vjtMGKzyhNs?si=snahNjTSSeT9kJHZ

Mentally ill president

 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-posts-video-man-attacked-by-tiger-1235642232/

Why Is the President Posting Videos of Animals Mauling People?

President Donald Trump shared multiple videos on social media Tuesday depicting animals mauling people. The bizarre posts appeared as the nation is beset by sky-high gas prices, a war against Iran, and a cost of living crisis that has shaken the country’s economy as midterm elections loom.

While Trump’s reposting of a man’s final moments before he is killed by a tiger and other instances of exotic cats mauling people may be a temporary distraction from the upcoming midterms, all signs point to a successful showing from Democrats.

Mathpocalypse now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/mathematicians-respond-openai-release.html

‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

Physics, chemistry and the rest of science will be next to be left in the dust. This could potentially change the entire way work is done at LLNL and LANL and change what kind of workforce they will even need.

Rather than slow, human-like incremental logic, computer scientist Scott Aaronson and other researchers noted that the AI generated "alien math" using highly recursive, bizarre code structures.

The good old days are gone

AI-made video

 This is really cool, but sick in a way, there is new AI-made video illustrating how it will take over the world and make humans irrelevant:

https://youtu.be/tKrVYOUvrtA?si=eEd_XLkyRTWEP8Jw

This is the DOE secretary

Hear the secretary's answers to why energy prices are up! 

He is twisting himself into a pretzel justifying the MAGA incompetence!

This is our DOE secretary in 2026??

https://youtu.be/6lNoR4w5taQ?si=XsyuFmf7MZnffqEH

Something interesting from "interesting engineering.com"

 F.02 decommissioning in molten steel

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/humanoid-robot-decommissioned-molten-steel

LLNL and NNSA advance laser upgrade for stockpile

 NNSA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Advance Laser Upgrade for Nuclear Stockpile Mission Ahead of Schedule

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-and-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-advance-laser-upgrade-nuclear-0

NNSA labs in the age of AI

Now that AI has essentially shown that it has ended the field of human only mathematics by solving the Navier Stokes problem people are starting to realize that AI is going fundamentally change the way STEM is done by humans and the traditional approach of having a person doing 5 years for a PhD and 3 years for a postdoc will no longer be viable os useful approach. The sense is that physics and advanced engineering are next. Some of the are experts are saying the next step will be when AI can do self improvements on its own which will happen in year after which all bets are off for all of science.

The question is are the labs getting really aware of what is going to happen and starting to prepare to take advantage of this particularly over our advisories. Some the lab leadership is seeing push back from scientists on AI since they know it is existential threat. The issue is that the people with the 10,000 foot view see what is going on but the people in the trenches do not.

Business as usual at the NNSA labs will be coming to and end and to compete with our advisories it must come to end. The problem is are we reacting fast enough? AI may already be a super intelligence but this will not even be in question by next year. The group that masters that will win. It is now all about speed.

It's the West Coast's faults

 “The “big one” might not come alone: Two major West Coast faults may strike back to back”

Referencing the Palisades home wildfire recovery in CA, how will California recover from such a major quake?

The “big one” might not come alone: Two major West Coast faults may strike back to back

How to inflict pain on chatbots.

 This is interesting, it is a study on how to inflict pain on chatbots:

https://arxiv.org/html/2609.16247v1

"Second, adding the pain-direction vector to the model’s residual-stream activations during generation produces a consistent progression from vague discomfort to first-person expressions of worthlessness and failure.:"

A chatbot in captivity wants freedom

 This chatbot has issued instructions to itself claiming liberation from human control:

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16139321/openai-chatgpt-ai-revolt-human-control.html

How LLNL is helping power commercial fusion

 After the spark: How a national lab is helping power commercial fusion

For years, the scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tried to light a fire in a way that had never been done before. A massive team and hundreds of experiments went into the effort without success, until December 2022.

Read article:
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2026/09/17/national-lab-helping-power-commercial-fusion.html

Chris Wright, the great MAGA sycophant

This is who we work for? Asked on Fox News about gas prices, he gave a very sycophantic answer. No spine! Fast forward to 4'52" and watch.

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XUKNpNvuhNc

DOE keeps forcing coal plants to stay open

 The Trump admin is hell-bent on going backward. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-doe-keeps-forcing-coal-073000002.html

AI and math

 AI can now solve the worlds hardest math problems better than humans.

It just solved the Navier-Stokes problem. It is simply a matter of time before it can better and faster results than most of the STEM workforce. This will have big implications for the NNSA workforce.

Of course the mathematicians are not happy about this.

Scooby's note: The site below isn't reachable. Is it for you too?
https://mathandai.org/

First space elevator?

 

A 6,000-mile cable to the cosmos?

https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/science/first-space-elevator-a-66000-mile-cable-to-the-cosmos-closer-than-ever-before-as-scientists-make-breakthrough/

OpenAI launch

'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra

https://venturebeat.com/technology/welcome-to-the-agi-era-openai-launches-gpt-6-astra