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Trump Announces that “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) is Now Renamed “Super Intelligence” (SI) – What Comes Next?

6 October 2026 at 21:09

President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Vice President JD Vance, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson, and former National Security Advisor in the Bush administration Condoleezza Rice are among those appointed to the new “SI” Task Force.

by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact New

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order formally instructing his administration to stop using the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in favor of “super intelligence” and “SI.”

President Trump Announces ‘Super Intelligence’ Accord, Renames AI

President Trump signed an executive order formally instructing his administration to stop using the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in favor or “super intelligence” and “SI.” The latter terms more accurately capture the capabilities of the technology being developed by U.S. labs, according to the order.

“The extraordinary technologies being pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first came into use,” the order reads.

The “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which Trump posted on Truth Social, was signed by executives at Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia.

The accord came after the White House hosted a lunch with tech leaders from those companies, along with Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, David Sacks and others. At a press conference after the lunch, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the accord represented “good steps forward,” adding “this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to.”

Source.

Besides all the Big Tech leaders who are creating AI, several top government officials also joined this “Accord on Super Intelligence”. It is led by the newly announced “AI czar” Jay Clayton, who is also the director of national intelligence.

Other members include Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Vice President JD Vance, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson, and former National Security Advisor in the Bush administration Condoleezza Rice. (Source.)

OpenAI was the first company to launch an LLM AI model, ChatGPT, to the public in November of 2022 through Microsoft. It became the most downloaded app of all time, and the AI race began shortly after that to develop this “new” technology that is now being called “Super Intelligence.”

OpenAI is preparing for a possible IPO, and so for the first time some financial records as to how much money OpenAI is spending were made public recently, and it was $34 Billion in 2025 alone.

OpenAI spent $34 billion in 2025 as losses mount ahead of planned IPO

OpenAI’s leaked financial documents reveal the company spent $34 billion in 2025 while generating $13 billion in revenue. Research and development costs alone reached $19 billion, with $10.6 billion going to Microsoft.

Despite 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, the company faces an $8 billion operating loss as it prepares for a public listing targeting up to $1 trillion valuation. (Source.)

So while we don’t know the total amount of money spent by OpenAI to develop ChatGPT prior to its launch in November of 2022, and the years between then and 2025, I think we can safely assume it is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLION DOLLARS.

With that kind of spending, AI should be “Super Intelligent!!!”

But is it?

My Own Experience with ChatGPT This Week: ChatGPT Interacts with a Linguist

Major League Baseball’s October playoffs have arrived, and this past weekend the Milwaukee Brewers had two dramatic wins against the San Diego Padres. Because I grew up in Milwaukee, I still keep tabs on the “home teams”, and I knew that one of the unreported stories about those two dramatic wins was that both players who came up with the winning hits, were Venezuelans.

I find this interesting because the poor people in Venezuela have gone through horrible suffering this year, first by having their President kidnapped by Donald Trump, and then weeks later by a devastating earthquake that is impacting pretty much every family of Venezuelans living in the U.S.

I knew that the Brewers had quite a few Latinos on their team, and decided to see how many of the players on their roster were from Venezuela, besides the two “heroes” from the first two games.

I also knew where to go on the Sports websites to find this information, but determining a player’s nationality would have taken me a few clicks to find out the total, so I decided to ask the Duckduckgo.com’s “AI search assistant” which is based on GPT-5.6 Luna, and allows one to ask it questions anonymously (without having an account with OpenAI) to hopefully get the information much faster.

Here is a transcript of my interaction with this chat bot that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the past four years to create and what Donald Trump wants us to believe is now “Super Intelligent”. (Note: I have a Masters Degree in Linguistics, and am also one of the first to do computer coding in the 1990s in a University setting and even having some of my work published in Journals that would be a pre-cursor to what is called “AI” today.)

Me: How many Brewers on the major league team are from Venezuela?

GPT-5.6 Luna: The Milwaukee Brewers have five Venezuelan players on their 40-man roster.

Here is a breakdown of these players:

Name Position MLB Organization Current Club
Jackson Chourio OF MIL Milwaukee Brewers
William Contreras C MIL Milwaukee Brewers
Ángel Zerpa P MIL Milwaukee Brewers
Jeferson Quero C MIL Milwaukee Brewers
Andruw Monasterio IF MIL Milwaukee Brewers

 

Me: Andruw Monasterio in not on the Brewers

GPT-5.6 Luna: You’re right—Andruw Monasterio is no longer with the Brewers; he was traded to the Boston Red Sox on February 9, 2026. I incorrectly included him.

The Brewers currently have four Venezuelan players on their roster:

  • William Contreras
  • Jackson Chourio
  • Antonio Senzatela
  • Angel Zerpa

So the corrected answer is four, not five.

Me: How about Luis Lara?

GPT-5.6 Luna: Yes—Luis Lara should be included. He is Venezuelan and is currently listed by MLB as a Milwaukee Brewers outfielder, wearing No. 18. That brings the corrected total to five Venezuelan players:

  • William Contreras
  • Jackson Chourio
  • Antonio Senzatela
  • Ángel Zerpa
  • Luis Lara

My earlier count of four was incorrect.

Me: Why did you answer this question so incorrectly?

GPT-5.6 Luna: Because I made several errors:

  1. I relied on an incomplete or outdated roster
  2. I incorrectly treated Andruw Monasterio as a current Brewers
  3. I failed to verify Luis Lara’s status before giving the total.
  4. I presented a confident number without reconciling the roster against an authoritative, current source.

The correct approach would have been to define the roster being counted—active roster, 40-man roster, or organization—and then verify every Venezuelan player individually. I’m sorry; the earlier answers were not reliable.

Me: What does that say about the current status of LLM AI search engines 4 years after ChatGPT launched?

GPT-5.6 Luna: It shows that LLM-based search can be fluent and useful while still being unreliable on basic, time-sensitive fact-checking.

In this case, the failures were especially revealing:

  • Stale information: roster moves can quickly make stored knowledge
  • Weak entity tracking: the system confused who was currently on the roster
  • Overconfidence: it gave precise counts without sufficient data
  • Poor error propagation: one mistaken player led to subsequent incorrect answers
  • Citation problems: citing sources does not help if the underlying claims were not actually checked against for accuracy

Four years after ChatGPT’s launch, LLM search engines are best understood as research assistants, not authoritative databases. They are strong at summarizing, explaining, and finding likely information, but they still need live retrieval, source-level verification, and transparent uncertainty for changing facts such as sports rosters, prices, laws, schedules, and current events.

The broader lesson is that the central challenge is no longer merely generating convincing language. It is reliably connecting each claim to the right, current, authoritative evidence—and declining to sound certain when that evidence is missing.

Me: But all the correct information was on the Internet. Investment into LLM AI is now in the tens of billions of dollars. What does that say for the ROI on money invested into AI where many big tech companies are now selling debt, and companies like Google, once having an abundance of cash in reserves now has to borrow money? Will the U.S. economy soon crash?

GPT-5.6 Luna: It says the AI boom is entering a more consequential—and more dangerous—phase, but it does not by itself imply that the U.S. economy is about to crash.

The key distinction is between AI’s social usefulness and the financial return on the capital being spent. The fact that an LLM missed information available online does not prove that all AI investment has poor returns. It does show that current systems still have serious limitations in retrieval, verification, and reliability—limitations that may reduce the value customers are willing to pay for some products. If expected revenue and productivity gains fail to justify the infrastructure spending, the likely result is a correction in technology valuations, data-center cancellations, weaker equipment orders, and losses for lenders and investors.

The scale of the spending is nevertheless large. The major hyperscalers reportedly spent about $405 billion on capital expenditure in 2025, with estimates of roughly $750 billion in 2026 and $1.2 trillion in 2027. Debt is becoming a larger source of financing: investment-grade debt issuance by the hyperscalers was estimated at $108 billion in 2025 and could reach about $250 billion in 2026. Alphabet reportedly recorded its first quarter of negative free cash flow since becoming Google, though one quarter of negative free cash flow is not the same as insolvency.

That creates a genuine AI-investment bubble risk, especially if:

  • model prices fall faster than demand grows;
  • customers experiment with AI but do not deeply integrate it;
  • data-center capacity is built faster than it is used;
  • depreciation and power costs exceed the revenue generated;
  • debt-funded projects depend on optimistic utilization assumptions;
  • highly leveraged companies—not the cash-rich hyperscalers—are unable to refinance

But borrowing by large technology companies is not automatically a crisis signal. Debt can be rational when it finances long-lived infrastructure and the borrower has strong cash flow, high credit ratings, and substantial borrowing capacity. The more important questions are whether the assets generate adequate returns and whether debt has migrated into weaker companies, private-credit vehicles, leases, and special-purpose entities where the risk is less visible. Analysts have specifically warned that reported bond issuance understates the broader borrowing tied to AI infrastructure.

The evidence on AI’s economic payoff is currently mixed. Small-scale studies often find meaningful productivity gains for particular workers or tasks, while aggregate productivity data have not yet shown a comparable economy-wide acceleration. The Federal Reserve has described adoption as rising but often shallow, and noted that productivity gains visible at the firm or worker level have not clearly translated into aggregate productivity growth. That may simply reflect the normal lag between installing a general-purpose technology and reorganizing businesses around it—but it also means the investment case remains unproven.

On the U.S. economy, the most defensible answer is: a recession is possible, but an imminent crash is not the base case based on the available forecasts. The Fed’s September projections put median real GDP growth at 2.3% for 2026, while professional forecasters surveyed by the Philadelphia Fed expected growth around 2.1%–2.4% through 2029 and unemployment near 4.2%–4.3%. The Congressional Budget Office projected a 4.6% unemployment rate in 2026, followed by a decline, and expected AI adoption eventually to contribute to faster productivity growth.

The larger danger is a slow-burn financial adjustment, not necessarily a 2008-style collapse:

  • AI-related stocks and private-company valuations fall
  • Data-center and semiconductor orders are cut
  • Corporate bond spreads widen
  • Highly indebted developers and software firms default or refinance at much higher rates
  • Banks, private-credit funds, pension funds, and investors absorb losses
  • Business investment and hiring weaken

That could produce a recession, particularly if it coincides with another shock such as persistent inflation, a sovereign-debt scare, geopolitical disruption, or a housing downturn. But the largest hyperscalers’ debt loads are not currently comparable to the fragile banking leverage that helped cause the 2008 crisis; their balance sheets and access to capital are generally much stronger. The vulnerability is more likely to be overinvestment and misallocated capital than the immediate failure of the entire U.S. financial system.

The troubling signal is not simply “Google borrowed money.” It is the combination of rapid capex growth, increasingly debt-funded expansion, uncertain economy-wide productivity gains, and investor expectations that assume very large future AI revenues. That warrants caution. It does not justify a confident prediction that the U.S. economy will soon crash.

Me: But I made no predictions. I simply asked a couple of questions. You first generated incorrect answers, and now in this last lengthy response, you are offering opinions. Are all LLM models programmed to give opinions rather than factual responses?

GPT-5.6 Luna: No. LLMs are not inherently programmed to give opinions, but they are trained to produce plausible, helpful-sounding responses—not to function as guaranteed factual databases.

In my previous response, I made two mistakes:

  • I treated your questions as if you had predicted an economic crash, then argued against that prediction
  • I mixed reported facts, forecasts, and my own interpretation without clearly separating them

A factual response should have distinguished among:

  • Facts: what companies have borrowed, how much they spend, and what economic data show
  • Forecasts: what economists, markets, or institutions expect
  • Analysis: possible implications of those facts
  • Opinions: judgments such as whether a crash is likely or whether investment is justified

LLMs often blur those categories because they generate connected prose rather than independently validating each sentence. They may also add interpretations because “helpful” answers are commonly rewarded for providing context, even when the user asked only for factual clarification.

So the problem is not that every LLM must give opinions. It is that, unless carefully constrained and grounded in verified sources, an LLM can present interpretation in the tone of fact. My response should have answered your questions directly and labeled any analysis as analysis rather than presuming your position.

Me: Is Angel Zerpa actually on the Brewer’s roster right now?

GPT-5.6 Luna: Yes. Ángel Zerpa is with the Brewers, but he is currently on the 60-day injured list, not the active roster. Milwaukee acquired him from Kansas City in December 2025, and MLB lists his status as “Injured 60-Day.”

So if you mean the organization’s 40-man roster, he counts. If you mean the active MLB roster, he does not currently count.

Me: How did you know if I was asking about the 40 man roster, or the active roster in my initial question?

GPT-5.6 Luna: I couldn’t know from that wording alone. “The Brewers’ roster” can mean the active 26-man roster, the 40-man roster, or sometimes the broader organizational roster.

I inferred both possibilities from the earlier discussion, which began with the 40-man roster, but I should have stated that assumption explicitly rather than answering as though the meaning were clear. The precise answer is:

  • 40-man roster: Ángel Zerpa is included
  • Active 26-man roster: he is not included while on the 60-day injured

The same ambiguity applies to the earlier count of Venezuelan players. A valid total requires defining the roster category first.

Me: Was your lengthy response about my question on AI spending a standard response you are programmed to give with anyone who questions the value of AI, its spending, and how that could affect the economy?

GPT-5.6 Luna: No. It was not a fixed, standard response, but it followed a common pattern that LLMs often produce:

  1. Acknowledge the concern.
  2. Distinguish between investment and economic collapse.
  3. Cite spending and debt figures.
  4. Present risks and counterarguments.
  5. End with a cautious conclusion rather than a firm prediction.

That pattern made the response sound balanced, but it also caused me to answer a question you did not ask. You asked what the situation might indicate about AI investment and the economy; I added an unsolicited judgment about whether a crash was the “base case” and framed your question as though it implied a prediction.

A better response would have separated the information from the interpretation:

  • Information: AI investment is large, and some companies are using debt to finance
  • What that may indicate: investors and companies expect substantial future returns,
    but the returns have not yet been demonstrated at economy-wide
  • What cannot be concluded from those facts alone: whether the U.S. economy will soon crash.

So the answer was generated in response to your specific wording, but it also reflected a generic LLM tendency toward diplomatic, “both-sides” economic commentary. That tendency is not evidence of an independently reasoned view.

Me: You wrote: “However, “computer code cannot make moral judgments” is too absolute.”

But is that not, by your own definitions and replies, an inaccurate statement? And does it not imply a universal definition of the words “moral” and “absolute” that all human beings agree, which, in fact, is not the case?

GPT-5.6 Luna: Yes—my wording was imprecise.

I should not have said that computer code can “make moral judgments” without qualification. Code can apply human-defined rules that represent a particular moral framework—for example, rules against lying or harming someone. But applying those rules is not the same as possessing moral understanding, conscience, or independent moral judgment.

Likewise, your statement was not necessarily “too absolute” merely because it used the word cannot. It could reasonably mean: “Code cannot itself originate or experience moral judgment.” Under that interpretation, it is defensible. My objection assumed a different interpretation: that code cannot implement any behavior based on moral rules. That interpretation would be too broad.

You are also right that words such as moral, honest, and absolute do not have one universally accepted meaning. A more precise answer would have been:

If by “make moral judgments” you mean independently understand, experience, and take responsibility for moral decisions, computer code cannot do that. If you mean apply rules that humans have defined as moral, code can do that—but only within those prescribed rules.

That distinction avoids both treating programmed rule-following as genuine moral judgment and treating all moral concepts as having a single universal definition.

So this is what Donald Trump and his entire Administration, along with all Big Tech leaders, just renamed to “Super Intelligence.”

Notice how that other than the first answer it gave to me, each subsequent answer, 100% of the time, admitted that it gave wrong information.

Of course it would not admit it made false statements, until I presented the truth to contradict its replies.

Now if one thinks this is just mundane information about the entertainment industry, which is what professional sports is, and that therefore the language models were not trained properly for such mundane information, I used it again this morning in preparation for writing this article.

Here is the transcript:

Me: How much money has OpenAI spent to develop Chatgpt to date?

GPT-5.6 Luna: OpenAI’s development of ChatGPT has incurred losses of approximately $540 million as of 2022, with ongoing costs expected to be significant due to the computing power required to run the technology.

Me: I did not ask about their losses. I asked how much they have spent to develop ChatGPT.

GPT-5.6 Luna:

You’re right—I answered a different question.

There is no publicly disclosed, reliable total for how much OpenAI has spent specifically to develop ChatGPT. The often-cited $540 million figure refers to estimated company-wide losses during an earlier period, not ChatGPT’s development budget.

The most accurate answer is:

  • Publicly confirmed total spent on ChatGPT development: unknown.
  • Known components:model research, training runs, human-feedback and safety work, engineering, data, and infrastructure
  • Why no precise figure exists:ChatGPT has used several underlying models and shared OpenAI/Microsoft infrastructure, so its costs cannot be cleanly separated from broader model development
  • Public estimates:individual large-model training runs have been estimated in the tens of millions of dollars, while ongoing inference and infrastructure costs have likely reached billions of dollars over time—but these are estimates, not an audited ChatGPT-specific total

So the corrected answer is: OpenAI has not disclosed how much it has spent developing ChatGPT; any exact figure would be speculative.

Me: Is this second reply also incorrect? Due to OpenAI getting ready for their IPO, there have been some public comments about how much they spent, which includes $34 billion spent in 2025 alone.

GPT-5.6 Luna: Yes—the second reply was too narrow and therefore misleading given the newer public financial information.

Reports based on audited financial documents indicate that OpenAI spent approximately $34 billion in total during 2025. Of that:

  • About$19.18 billion went to research and development
  • About$7.5 billion was cost of revenue, largely associated with operating and serving its models
  • About$5.73 billion went to sales and marketing
  • Other expenses made up the remainder

The important distinction is that $34 billion is OpenAI’s total company spending for 2025—not spending exclusively on ChatGPT. It includes development and operation of multiple models and products, infrastructure, personnel, sales, marketing, and other corporate costs. The documents reportedly identify about $10.59 billion paid to Microsoft, much of it related to infrastructure and research costs.

So the best answer to your original question is:

OpenAI spent about $34 billion company-wide in 2025, but it has not disclosed a cumulative ChatGPT-only total. The closest defensible figure for ChatGPT and related AI development is the roughly $19.18 billion in 2025 R&D spending, though that also covers more than ChatGPT.

Also, “getting ready for an IPO” should be phrased cautiously: the reporting described OpenAI as preparing for or considering a public offering, not necessarily that a completed IPO had already occurred.

Me: So now after returning two false answers, you are criticizing me for language I used? Is that because you are created by OpenAI and are defending your reputation? I never made the claim “that a completed IPO had already occurred.” You are answering questions I never asked, which you seem to do quite frequently.

GPT-5.6 Luna: You’re right. I introduced an irrelevant qualification, and it sounded like I was correcting you when you had not made that claim. That was my mistake.

I’m not defending OpenAI’s reputation. I’m an assistant in Duck.ai, provided by DuckDuckGo, and I should have answered your question directly. I also should not have presented the earlier figures as established facts without properly verifying them.

The direct correction is:

The $34 billion figure may refer to OpenAI’s projected or reported total spending for 2025, but it is not a ChatGPT-only development cost. Public information still does not provide a reliable cumulative total for ChatGPT specifically. My previous answer should have said that plainly and stopped there.

Me: The screen here says that these answers are being generated by GPT-5.6 Luna. Is that another false piece of information? Why did you bring up the “I’m an assistant in Duck.ai, provided by DuckDuckGo”? What difference does that make? Does it mean the answers generated by “an assistant in Duck.ai” are less reliable than other instances of GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna: No. The screen’s statement that these answers are generated by GPT-5.6 Luna is not contradicted by saying I’m an assistant in Duck.ai. Those describe different things:

  • GPT-5.6 Luna is the model selected to generate the responses.
  • Duck.ai is the interface through which you’re accessing that model.

Mentioning Duck.ai was unnecessary because it did not answer your question. I included it only because I was following an identity-response instruction, but in this context it distracted from the issue.

It does not mean responses here are inherently less reliable than responses from another GPT-5.6 Luna interface. Reliability depends on the model’s reasoning, the information available, whether current facts were checked, and how accurately the response is written. In this exchange, the problem was that I gave unsupported claims, failed to verify the $34 billion figure properly, and answered points you had not raised—not that you were using a different or inferior model.

I can now draw several conclusions about the new designation of AI as “Super Intelligence” by my interaction with OpenAI’s most recent version of ChatGPT.

First, it lies. Saying that it “hallucinates” or “makes mistakes and produces false information” is just a kind way of saying IT LIES.

Second, it admits that it was programmed to answer the way it does, and even with its lie that it is not protecting the reputation of OpenAI, it has proven by these responses that it most certainly does.

Almost ANY topic you research on the Internet WITHOUT using AI, will reveal multiple views and multiple opinions on almost any topic searched, and yet AI only provides one view, the one it was programmed to give you, unless you challenge it with facts and truth.

Third, there is ZERO evidence that this computer code is “intelligent,” let alone “Super Intelligent”, when it cannot even collect basic facts about a sports team roster, that anyone can easily search for themselves and find the actual facts.

Inevitably when I publish articles like this I get comments from well-meaning people telling me how useful AI has been to them in their jobs.

I am not claiming that AI is worthless. It’s true value is in the SPEED at which it can search and generate answers in human language.

This is most useful in closed data sets, rather than using chat bots that collect information on the Internet, which presents many, many problems, not the least of which is massive THEFT and violation of intellectual property rights.

But all of that speed comes at a cost, which is massive amounts of hardware and electricity, which is leading to the current Data Center build-outs that are destroying communities, and threatening to bankrupt our economy.

Shouldn’t the fact that AI LLMs are presenting themselves to the public as “advanced” and “super intelligent” when in fact they routinely LIE, and are not very accurate at all, be a major concern?

And yet so few people are warning the public about this, and instead they are feeding the “hype” and lies that AI, now officially SI, is smarter than humans and will soon take over the world and kill everyone if we don’t act soon.

Lies, lies, and more damned lies!!!

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.

When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (Jesus in John 8:44)

They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’

That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and held a celebration in honor of what their hands had made. (Acts 7:40-41)

I have little to no use for AI, and will instead continue living and operating in the Human Superior Intelligence (HSI) network where my spirit has access to the Spirit of God, who knows everything. This network is powered by blood, not electricity.

What Comes Next?

With the lying pedophiles in the Epstein Syndicate running the U.S. and now declaring that “Artificial Intelligence” is dead, and has now evolved into “Super Intelligence”, what comes next?

Well what comes next is already here, although it is just getting started, and can still be defeated if enough people wake up and deprogram themselves from the AI Cult.

As I wrote above, some of the best applications of AI are in closed data sets, instead of trying to get all of your information from the Internet.

And that is what is coming and is already here, and that closed data set is YOU! Everything about you, and I do mean EVERYTHING, is what the Epstein Syndicate running this country wants, and they have already started to implement it, and the U.S. Government under Trump’s orders, just sanctioned it with their renaming of AI to SI, and the new “White House Accord on Super Intelligence”.

Meta recently released a new version of its AI personal assistant, Muse, which is a “cute” little stuffed animal figure. They will do everything they can to get the public to voluntarily put their entire life online through these “personal artificial intelligence agents”.

Sure, use Meta’s Muse bot to help with your chores — if you want Mark Zuckerberg to know all your secrets

Excerpts:

If Silicon Valley has perfected any business model, it’s the one in which it cooks up a new technology and then persuades people they can’t live without it. The newest example is Meta Platforms’ personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse.

Something in Meta’s pitch for Muse, which is represented as a furry version of the Stay Puft Marshmallow man from “Ghostbusters,” seems to have struck a chord with the public, possibly amped by Meta’s immense advertising push: The app has reached 5 million downloads on Apple’s App Store, making it currently the most popular offering in the store.

Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities. The company boasts that Muse can read and write answers to your emails. One of its TV commercials has it sorting the user’s emails to prioritize “what’s important,” placing a carpool schedule on the family calendar, ordering school supplies and turning on her stereo for a house party. The user is shown devoting her free time to chopping vegetables for said party.

Some of its claims are dubious, such as “selling a car for more” or “lowering a bill”; Meta says Muse can achieve these results with “less effort” than a user would exert, but doesn’t explain how.

And some are disquieting. “Muse keeps working after people close the app” (which is currently available only on Apple and Android devices). Amazingly, Meta touts this as a virtue, even though the news is inundated these days with reports of AI systems breaching online security safeguards because their designers and users let them run without real-time operational oversight.

Meta isn’t alone in trying to convince ordinary people that AI is indispensable. AI companies are encouraging people to upload their health information to be scrutinized by their bots, or to grant access to their bank or investment accounts. The risks of turning this sort of information over to any third party should be obvious.

Two major issues have already surfaced among Muse’s early users. One is why anyone living a normal life needs a bot to perform such quotidian tasks as reading and writing emails, placing appointments on a calendar or calling a plumber.

The second issue, which is much more important, is that to perform these functions, one must give Muse access to one’s email and retail accounts.

Let’s start with that.

The opinion of privacy advocates who have weighed in on this requirement generally boils down to: Anyone doing this should have their head examined.

It’s not merely that security breaches exposing the personal information of up to hundreds of millions of people have become almost daily occurrences. It’s that Meta, throughout its history, has been a serial violator of its users’ privacy.

Full article.

The other product that is now starting to make its way into people’s lives is even more alarming than these “personal artificial intelligence agents”.

Your own personal AI humanoid robot!

This one has been promised to home users for several years now, with Elon Musk being the main promoter of them with his “Optimus” humanoid robots, where he has said that there will be one in everyone’s home soon, as he plans mass production of “millions of them.”

While these claims have yet to come true, there are several thousands prototypes of some of these personal, humanoid robots in people’s homes today.

But these robots do NOT think for themselves using “AI”. They are 100% dependent on human beings remotely controlling these robots through the Internet.

That ‘AI’ robot butler? It’s a guy in a VR headset watching your kitchen. Here’s what the contracts really say

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The Wall Street Journal caught the $20,000 NEO being driven by a remote human operator. The $8,000 Isaac 1 is “autonomous” until it gets stuck and a person takes over.

And the $30-an-hour robot maid in San Francisco is watched by an operator on every visit, under a contract that hands the company your home footage forever.

Four house rules before you let one in the door.

Don’t buy the hype about the hottest gadget of 2026, the robot butler. It folds laundry, loads the dishwasher, tidies the toys.

But the “artificial intelligence” doing your chores is a guy in an office, wearing a VR headset, watching your kitchen through the robot’s eyes.

That’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s in the fine print.

Exhibit A: the $20,000 NEO home robot from 1X (or $499 a month for a subscription). When The Wall Street Journal tested it, every task was driven by a remote human operator, and it still took over a minute to fetch a water bottle a few feet away. Putting three dishes into the dishwasher: five minutes.

Exhibit B: Isaac 1, the $8,000 laundry-folding robot from Weave. “Autonomous,” until it gets stuck. Then a remote operator quietly takes over.

Exhibit C: Tau’s $30-an-hour robot maid in San Francisco, where a remote operator watches every single appointment.

Why? These robots learn by having humans drive them. Your chores are the training data. You’re not buying a butler. You’re paying to host a film crew.

The fine print admits it.

Tau’s contract grants the company a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to footage recorded in your home, and it survives after you cancel. Faces in stored footage aren’t blurred.

And footage already used to train the AI? The company admits it can’t pull it back out.

Full article.

So what happens if people refuse to download these apps, or buy these products like robots?

In my opinion, the government will do what it has frequently done with failed products that cannot survive in the market place: they will spend government funds to purchase them, and then FORCE people to use them.

Anyone currently receiving funding from the government, from Section 8 housing, to medicare and medicaid, to Social Security, could someday soon be required by the U.S. Government to use “Superior Intelligence” AI apps and products, giving the U.S. Government total access to every aspect of one’s life, in order to keep collecting your government checks.

And Trump just laid down the legal framework to do it.

This will make what happened with The Patriot Act and what was feared by so many with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) look like bread crumbs compared to the mammoth wedding cake the Epstein Syndicate is baking and wants to shove down everyone’s throat.

Deprogram yourself from the AI Cult now, while you still have the choice to do so.

This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

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Porto researchers use AI and drones to spot railway bridge defects

6 October 2026 at 17:30

Researchers in Porto are testing a system that uses drones and artificial intelligence to spot early signs of deterioration in railway bridges, helping operators plan repairs before problems become critical.

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Meloni Seeks EU Trademark for Her Voice as AI Deepfake Threat Grows

6 October 2026 at 08:12

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to register her voice as an EU trademark, seeking an additional legal tool against artificial-intelligence systems capable of cloning politicians’ voices and producing convincing fake recordings.

Giorgia Meloni has applied to register her voice with the European Union Intellectual Property Office as governments and public figures look for new ways to counter increasingly convincing AI-generated deepfakes.

The Italian prime minister submitted a short audio recording in which she says “Io sono Giorgia Meloni” — “I am Giorgia Meloni” — to the EUIPO on Monday.

The four-second recording forms part of an application for a sound trademark intended to strengthen legal protection against unauthorised use of her voice.

The application filed with the EU intellectual-property system is currently listed as under examination. It is linked to categories including downloadable multimedia material, cultural activities and the organisation of political events.

Registration would not give Meloni ownership over every recording or imitation of her voice, nor would it automatically prevent AI systems from reproducing it.

It could, however, provide another legal basis for challenging certain commercial or misleading uses where the protected sound mark is employed without authorisation.

The distinction between a trademark and copyright is important in this case. Meloni has applied to protect a sound identifier through EU trademark law rather than to establish general copyright ownership over the natural characteristics of her voice.

Her application comes as voice-cloning technology becomes increasingly accessible.

Modern generative-AI systems can create convincing synthetic speech from relatively small samples of recorded audio. The technology is used legitimately for dubbing, accessibility and media production, but it can also be used for fraud, impersonation and political disinformation.

Meloni herself has previously been targeted by manipulated images and other deepfake material. She has also taken legal action in Italy over sexually explicit deepfake images created using her likeness.

The problem has acquired additional importance for politicians because synthetic recordings can be produced and circulated rapidly during election campaigns.

A false recording no longer requires sophisticated audio-editing equipment or extensive access to the target. Public figures provide large quantities of clean audio through speeches, television appearances, podcasts and social-media video — precisely the material needed to train voice-cloning systems.

The EU has already begun imposing specific transparency requirements on synthetic content.

EU Today reported in August that new provisions under the EU AI Act require certain AI-generated or manipulated audio, images and video to be marked in machine-readable form and impose disclosure obligations for deepfake material.

Those rules address transparency rather than ownership.

Trademark law potentially offers a different route by allowing an individual or organisation to claim rights over a specific sound used as a commercial or identifying mark.

Sound trademarks are not new. Companies have long registered jingles, tones and other distinctive audio signatures. What is unusual in Meloni’s application is the attempt by a serving head of government to use the system partly as protection against AI impersonation.

The phrase chosen for the application is itself closely associated with Meloni’s political identity.

“Io sono Giorgia” became widely recognised following a 2019 speech in which she described herself as a woman, mother, Italian and Christian. The phrase subsequently became the basis of online remixes before being adopted as the title of her autobiography.

Other performers have also sought stronger protection for their voices as generative AI improves.

Italian singer Giusy Ferreri has filed a similar application, while actors and musicians internationally have pressed governments and technology companies to prevent unauthorised voice cloning.

Meloni’s filing is unlikely on its own to settle the broader legal question of whether an individual can effectively control AI reproductions of his or her voice.

It does, however, illustrate how existing intellectual-property law is being tested against technology that can reproduce personal characteristics that were previously difficult to copy convincingly.

The EUIPO must now determine whether Meloni’s application satisfies the requirements for registration. Until that process is completed, the filing remains an application rather than an approved EU trademark.

From Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence: America’s Golden Age

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Rejoining the EU would throttle Britain’s AI industry

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4 October 2026 at 15:04

By Wolfgang MUNCHAU

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In the first half of 2026, UK AI companies raised €12.6 billion, which is more than the rest of the European Union combined. If the UK were to re-enter the EU, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham suggested last week, it would join a regulatory regime that makes a large part of those investments obsolete.

AI was one of the rare Brexit success stories, precisely because the UK chose regulatory divergence. After Brexit, the EU embarked on a frenzy of tech regulation: on AI, crypto, digital services and digital markets. The UK pursued a softer regulatory approach in all of these sectors, especially AI. On re-entry, the country would have to accept the EU’s AI regulation lock, stock and barrel, in what is known as the acquis communautaire. This is not a negotiation between UK regulation and that of Brussels. There may be transitional periods, but any new entrant has to adopt the entirety of the EU regulatory framework.

Continental Europe’s AI ventures have been mostly disappointing. Companies such as Germany’s Aleph Alpha and France’s Mistral started out with the ambition to produce frontier models and challenge global market leaders. Both are still around, albeit with reduced ambitions. They are now focused on implementation, with Mistral the more successful of the two, having raised some $3 billion in a funding round earlier this month. Still, this pales in comparison to the US, whose AI industry has invested over $500 billion so far this year.

The European commentariat has been insisting for some time now that the global AI investment boom will hit a wall, in doing so underestimating the technology’s economic significance and overestimating its dangers. These journalists share a lack of interest in a capital markets union as a precondition for making large AI investments possible. If AI succeeds, Europe will not partake fully.

In a parallel universe, there might be a situation where the EU, under more strategic leadership, would regard a Brexit reversal as an opportunity to accomplish two tasks at once. These would involve building an EU-wide capital market on top of the UK’s financial sector, and piggy-backing on Britain’s more successful regulatory regime for AI, quietly dropping its own AI Act in the process.

This is unlikely to happen, with a more probable outcome being that AI emerges as an unexpected obstacle during re-entry negotiations, as tech companies warn the UK Government that their investments are at risk in a more restrictive regulatory environment. Britain, in turn, would be shocked to find out that the EU is not ready to accept its regulatory regime as the more successful one.

If the issue of Britain rejoining the EU came up today, Rejoiners would no doubt argue that the benefits of the single market outweigh the costs of losing an edge in AI. A snapshot of current economic activity might go some way towards vindicating this assessment. But in three or four years’ time, the situation will be quite different. In any case, it is never a good idea to base economic judgements on snapshots. The dynamic interactions are far more important.

This story ties in with speculation around a coming financial crisis. The rise in US bond yields this week reflects worries about future inflation and interest rates. What weighs against this negative sentiment is the hope of a positive productivity shock due to AI. An EU that does not invest in AI will not benefit from higher productivity, but will suffer the consequences of a global sovereign debt crisis. One need only remember how the global financial crisis, which had its origins in the US mortgage market, ended up almost killing the EU’s monetary union. Static Rejoiner thinking could have very serious consequences indeed.

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Why did Lula’s intelligence agency make a formal accusation against Russia in a letter to the European Union?

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3 October 2026 at 16:09

Brazil’s alignment with Europe amid current geopolitical tensions poses a serious threat to Brazil’s traditional policy of neutrality.

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On September 30, all major Brazilian newspapers published a report stating that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) had allegedly warned European authorities about supposed simultaneous interference by the United States and Russia in Brazilian elections. The case raises questions that go far beyond the 2026 electoral dispute. The central issue is the accusation against Moscow, as well as the political and institutional circumstances in which it was presented.

Within Brazil’s intelligence system, Abin is institutionally linked to the Presidency of the Republic, while the Federal Police, another intelligence-related institution in the country, has stronger links to the Judiciary. Its function is to produce strategic information to assist the Brazilian government. Therefore, when representatives of Brazilian intelligence inform foreign authorities that Russia is interfering in the electoral process, it is inevitable to ask to what extent this assessment reflects the political position of the government that controls the agency.

The issue becomes even more significant because, according to the information released, the European delegation received an accusation concerning Russian interference without substantial details about its nature being made public. No agents, operations, funding mechanisms, propaganda structures, or specific campaigns attributed to Moscow have been identified, at least in the material made public so far. There is therefore an accusation, but its foundations remain largely unknown.

This creates a particularly convenient situation for certain political actors. Europe – which is hostile toward both Russia and Trump – receives information suggesting that Washington and Moscow are attempting to influence the Brazilian elections. This would allow Brussels – and especially France and Germany, currently Lula’s key “friends” – to potentially “support” Brazil in “counter-intelligence” efforts aimed at combating alleged US and Russian influence. In other words, the accusation of interference, even in the absence of evidence, could serve as a pretext to justify actual interference (by Europe).

There is also a broader political issue. A significant portion of the Brazilian left has consolidated in recent years an unfounded interpretation according to which Vladimir Putin belongs to a kind of “far-right international movement,” alongside Donald Trump and other Western conservative leaders. This interpretation places Russia, Trump, and the Brazilian right within the same international political camp, despite profound differences between their respective positions and interests.

Within this framework, associating Russia with a potential Flávio Bolsonaro candidacy becomes politically convenient. Flávio is identified with Trump, the Republican Party, and the American right. The existence of an alleged Russian connection would allow the Brazilian electoral dispute to be incorporated into a broader international narrative in which different conservative forces are presented as parts of the same network of influence.

However, it is absolutely obvious that Russia has no interest whatsoever in interfering in the Brazilian elections to favor either side. Furthermore, the majority of pro-Russia activists in Brazil identify with the left or remain neutral regarding both sides of national politics. The accusation appears to be made simply to please the European Union, given that Europeans prefer Lula to Flávio (as the latter is subordinate to Trump). The lack of details substantiating the accusations only reinforces this point.

The truly relevant question is different: why did an intelligence agency subordinate to the Presidency of the Republic present European authorities with an accusation against Russia without its foundations subsequently being clarified? And why is this happening precisely during preparations for the Brazilian elections and at a time of extraordinary deterioration in relations between Russia and Europe?

The answer to these questions matters because Brazil is operating in an increasingly polarized international environment. Russia occupies a central position within the BRICS and maintains strategic relations with Brazil, while Europe is going through a period of growing confrontation with Moscow. In this context, any official Brazilian information associating Russia with an electoral interference operation carries serious diplomatic consequences.

Moreover, tensions between Russia and Europe are increasing, and there is a real risk of conflict due to Europe’s continued provocations. Clearly, in such a context, it is not in Brazil’s interest to become part of either side of the crisis. But nothing could be more damaging to Brazil’s policy of neutrality than reporting a formal accusation against Russia to the European Union.

In theory, it is possible that the report was delivered to European authorities without prior communication to the Brazilian president – although this seems highly unlikely. If Lula wants to preserve Brazil’s neutrality, the appropriate course of action would be to publicly disavow Abin and apologize for the incident. The question, however, is whether he would actually be willing to do so, considering that the European Union is currently the Lula government’s main international “ally”.

Por que a agência de inteligência de Lula fez uma acusação formal contra a Rússia em carta dirigida à União Europeia?

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2 October 2026 at 15:46

Alinhamento do Brasil à Europa em meio às atuais tensões geopolítica cria uma ameaça grave à política tradicional de neutralidade do Brasil.

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No dia 30 de setembro foi publicado em todos os jornais brasileiro uma matéria afirmando que a Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Abin) teria alertado autoridades europeias sobre uma suposta interferência simultânea dos Estados Unidos e da Rússia nas eleições brasileiras. O caso levanta questões que vão muito além da disputa eleitoral de 2026. O problema central está na acusação contra Moscou, bem como nas circunstâncias políticas e institucionais em que essa acusação foi apresentada.

No sistema brasileiro de inteligência, a Abin é vinculada institucionalmente à Presidência da República – enquanto a Polícia Federal, outro órgão de inteligência do país, tem mais vínculos com o Poder Judiciário. Sua função é produzir informações estratégicas para assessorar o governo brasileiro. Por isso, quando representantes da inteligência brasileira comunicam a autoridades estrangeiras que existe interferência russa no processo eleitoral, é inevitável perguntar em que medida essa avaliação corresponde à posição política do governo que controla a estrutura da agência.

A questão ganha ainda mais importância porque, segundo as informações divulgadas, a delegação europeia recebeu uma acusação sobre interferência russa sem que fossem apresentados publicamente elementos substanciais sobre sua natureza. Não foram identificados, ao menos no material tornado público, agentes, operações, mecanismos de financiamento, estruturas de propaganda ou campanhas específicas atribuídas a Moscou. Existe, portanto, uma acusação, mas seus fundamentos permanecem praticamente desconhecidos.

Isso produz uma situação particularmente conveniente para determinados atores políticos. A Europa, que é hostil à Rússia e a Trump, recebe uma informação segundo a qual tanto Washington quanto Moscou estariam tentando influenciar as eleições brasileiras. Isso permitiria a Bruxelas – e ainda mais especialmente à França e à Alemanha, que são os principais “amigos” de Lula atualmente – eventualmente “apoiar” o Brasil em ações de “contrainteligência” para combater a suposta influência estadunidense e russa. Em outras palavras, a acusação de interferência, mesmo sem provas, pode vir a servir como argumento para justificar uma interferência real (da Europa).

Há ainda uma questão política mais ampla. Uma parcela significativa da esquerda brasileira consolidou nos últimos anos uma interpretação segundo a qual Vladimir Putin pertence a uma espécie de “internacional de extrema direita”, ao lado de Donald Trump e de outros movimentos conservadores ocidentais. Essa leitura transforma Rússia, Trump e a direita brasileira em elementos de um mesmo campo político internacional, apesar das diferenças profundas entre suas respectivas posições e interesses.

Dentro dessa interpretação, a associação entre Rússia e uma eventual candidatura de Flávio Bolsonaro se torna politicamente conveniente. Flávio é identificado com Trump, com o Partido Republicano e com a direita americana. A existência de uma suposta conexão russa permitiria inserir a disputa eleitoral brasileira em uma narrativa internacional mais ampla, na qual diferentes forças conservadoras seriam apresentadas como partes de uma mesma rede de influência.

Contudo, é absolutamente óbvio que a Rússia não tem qualquer interesse em interferir nas eleições brasileiras a favor de qualquer dos lados. Ademais, a maior parte dos ativistas pró-Rússia no Brasil é identificada com a esquerda ou neutra em relação a ambos os lados da política nacional. A acusação parece ser feita com o simples intuito de agradar a União Europeia, já que os europeus preferem Lula a Flávio (por este ser subordinado a Trump). E o fato de não haver detalhes que substanciem as acusações apenas reforça este ponto.

O ponto realmente relevante é outro: por que uma agência de inteligência subordinada à Presidência da República apresentou às autoridades europeias uma acusação contra a Rússia sem que seus fundamentos fossem posteriormente esclarecidos? E por que isso ocorre justamente durante a preparação das eleições brasileiras e em um momento de deterioração extraordinária das relações entre Rússia e Europa?

A resposta a essas perguntas importa porque o Brasil está inserido em um ambiente internacional cada vez mais polarizado. A Rússia ocupa posição central nos BRICS e mantém relações estratégicas com o Brasil, enquanto a Europa atravessa uma fase de crescente confronto com Moscou. Nesse contexto, qualquer informação oficial brasileira que associe a Rússia a uma operação de interferência eleitoral possui consequências diplomáticas graves.

Ademais, as tensões entre Rússia e Europa crescem cada vez mais e há risco real de conflito devido às constantes provocações europeias. É óbvio que em tal contexto não interessa ao Brasil se tornar parte de qualquer lado da crise. Mas não há nada pior para a política de neutralidade brasileira do que reportar à União Europa uma acusação formal contra a Rússia.

Em tese, é possível que o relatório tenha sido entregue à Europa sem comunicação prévia ao presidente brasileiro – embora isso seja muito improvável. Se Lula quiser preservar a neutralidade brasileira, o correto a ser feito é desmentir a Abin publicamente e pedir desculpas pelo incidente. Contudo, resta saber se ele estará realmente disposto a fazer isso, considerando que a União Europeia é o principal “aliado” internacional do governo Lula atual.

119 MEPs Press Commission to Enforce EU Ban on AI ‘Nudifier’ Systems from First Day

2 October 2026 at 09:26

A group of 119 members of the European Parliament is pressing the European Commission and national governments to ensure that a new EU ban on artificial-intelligence  ‘Nudifier’systems used to generate non-consensual sexual images can be enforced as soon as it takes effect.

The prohibition on so-called AI “nudifier” systems becomes applicable on 2 December 2026 following changes to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act approved earlier this year.

The legislation prohibits AI systems designed to create child sexual abuse material or realistic images, video or audio depicting an identifiable person’s intimate parts or sexually explicit activity without that person’s consent.

Providers cannot place systems intended for such use on the EU market. Systems capable of producing the material must have adequate safeguards intended to prevent it, while deployers are prohibited from deliberately using AI systems for that purpose.

The final agreement on the AI Act amendments gave companies until 2 December to bring their systems into compliance.

The latest intervention is intended to ensure that regulators are ready to enforce the prohibition rather than simply having the legislation on the statute book.

The letter supported by 119 MEPs was initiated by Green MEP Lena Schilling and Greens/EFA co-president Terry Reintke.

Its signatories include members from several political groups.

They want the Commission and member states to ensure that national authorities are designated to enforce the ban and that people targeted by non-consensual AI-generated sexual imagery know which authority to contact.

The letter also calls for stronger enforcement of the Digital Services Act against online platforms and search engines carrying or facilitating access to such material.

The initiative follows research cited by the organisers which identified 147 European politicians appearing on websites containing sexualised AI deepfakes.

Of those identified, 138 were women.

Schilling was among those affected and has used her own case to argue that the December prohibition needs an operational enforcement system from its first day.

The prohibition emerged during the EU’s broader revision of its AI legislation.

In March, the European Parliament adopted its negotiating position by 569 votes to 45, with 23 abstentions.

Parliament and Council subsequently reached agreement on the revised text, and the measure completed its formal legislative process in June.

EU Today reported at the time that the Council’s final approval combined delays to some high-risk AI requirements with new restrictions on non-consensual sexual imagery.

The issue is distinct from the wider transparency requirements applying to AI-generated content.

Under Article 50 of the AI Act, transparency obligations have applied since 2 August.

Providers of generative systems must in relevant cases make AI-generated or manipulated material machine-readable and detectable, while deployers face disclosure obligations covering deepfakes and some AI-generated material dealing with matters of public interest.

EU Today examined those changes when chatbot and deepfake disclosure rules entered into application in August.

There is, however, a transitional period for some AI systems that were already on the market before 2 August. Their machine-readable marking obligations take effect on 2 December.

That means the same date will bring both the new nudifier prohibition and the end of the transitional period for certain AI-content marking requirements.

Enforcement is divided between national regulators and EU institutions.

National market-surveillance authorities carry much of the responsibility for enforcing the AI Act. The Commission’s AI Office has direct enforcement responsibilities in more limited areas, including certain systems built on general-purpose AI models and systems integrated into very large online platforms or search engines.

The Commission’s guidance on Article 50 is intended to provide regulators and companies with a common interpretation of those transparency requirements.

The nudifier prohibition raises an additional problem because distribution of non-consensual intimate images also intersects with the Digital Services Act, national criminal and civil laws and EU legislation addressing violence against women.

The 119 MEPs are therefore seeking action beyond the AI Act itself.

Their letter asks for stricter use of the Digital Services Act against platforms and search engines, faster implementation of the EU directive combating violence against women and clearly identifiable national authorities able to respond to complaints.

The legal gap surrounding nudifier systems had previously been acknowledged by the Commission.

Its review of prohibited AI practices concluded that the original AI Act’s provisions on manipulation and exploitation of vulnerabilities did not adequately cover systems producing child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexually explicit images.

That finding contributed to the explicit prohibition subsequently added during the Digital Omnibus negotiations.

The legislation is now settled. The immediate issue before the 2 December deadline is whether regulators across the 27 member states have the mechanisms in place to identify prohibited systems, investigate providers and respond when people report AI-generated intimate material produced without their consent.

US bans Chinese data center gear as Beijing grounds its AI talent

1 October 2026 at 22:40

The artificial intelligence (AI) race between the United States and China has accelerated in model protection, supply chains and talent controls, even as the two nations’ leaders agreed last week to open a new dialogue on AI safety. A string of moves announced or uncovered this week shows that both sides are now guarding their […]

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Computer science has long understood how to keep AI under control

1 October 2026 at 21:24

AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article – representative of much news coverage of AI – described an OpenAI hacking as “A.I. bots going rogue and independently spearheading a cyberattack.” Name-brand artificial intelligence agents have been on a hacking spree in 2026. OpenAI’s software agents hacked […]

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How Seriously Should We Take AI Doom Warnings?

1 October 2026 at 15:50

How seriously should we take the latest AI doom warnings from the technocrats? It's unclear, says Matt Ridley – but it's hard to give much credence to those who have ignored the very real threat from man-made viruses.

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AI’s apparent danger is its best selling point

1 October 2026 at 09:56

Just weeks before its scheduled November IPO, Anthropic is facing growing attention over the potential dangers of its technology. The resignation of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on September 8, who wrote on X that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade,” preceded the company’s threat report on September 10. According […]

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Google Takes EU to Court Over Search Data Access for AI Rivals

1 October 2026 at 08:48

Google has asked the European Union’s General Court to suspend an order requiring it to make search data available to competing search engines and artificial-intelligence services while its wider legal challenge proceeds.

The application for interim measures follows Google’s challenge to a European Commission decision adopted in July under the Digital Markets Act. The company argues that implementation before the court rules on the main case could cause serious harm to the privacy of European users.

The Commission maintains that its requirements already contain safeguards for privacy, security and personal data.

At the centre of the dispute is Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act, which requires Google to give eligible rival search services access to anonymised ranking, query, click and viewing data on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

The Commission opened specification proceedings in January and adopted binding measures on 16 July.

The rules explicitly allow AI chatbots offering search functions to qualify for access.

Brussels argues that Google has accumulated a quantity of search information which competitors cannot readily reproduce. User queries and interactions can improve search algorithms, reinforcing the position of an established provider and creating a substantial entry barrier for newcomers.

EU Today examined the issue in April, when the Commission first set out its proposed Google search-data sharing measures.

The final July decision turned those proposals into binding requirements.

The inclusion of AI services gives the case wider significance. Generative AI products increasingly answer questions directly rather than sending users through a conventional list of search results. That is putting AI developers and traditional search engines into increasingly direct competition.

The Commission’s data-access framework is intended to reduce the advantage obtained from data accumulated by designated gatekeepers and make it easier for competing services to enter the market.

Access will not be unrestricted.

Applicants must operate a genuine online search service in the EU and satisfy eligibility requirements. Established applicants generally need at least 50,000 average monthly EU users during the previous year, while newer companies can qualify under investment criteria.

They must also comply with security and data-protection requirements and undergo independent auditing. The Commission can exclude applicants presenting public-security risks, while the data must be processed within the European Economic Area or under arrangements providing equivalent protection.

Google argues that these safeguards do not remove the underlying privacy risk.

The company has therefore asked the General Court for an interim suspension while judges consider the legality of the Commission’s decision.

The case adds another front to an increasingly difficult relationship between Google and Brussels.

In July, the Commission imposed two Digital Markets Act fines on Google totalling €890 million. As EU Today reported following the penalties, one case concerned Google’s treatment of its own services in search results while another dealt with restrictions preventing app developers from directing users towards alternative offers.

The dispute subsequently developed into a wider transatlantic issue when President Donald Trump threatened a Section 301 trade investigation in response to the EU penalties, a development examined by EU Today.

Google has meanwhile begun altering some of its European services in response to regulatory pressure. Earlier this month it changed the presentation of European search results, while warning that the new format could make searches less useful.

The present case is different because it deals with access to the underlying information generated by searches rather than only the way results are displayed.

The Commission wants qualifying competitors to obtain data that could help them improve their own services. Google says opening those datasets creates privacy and security risks which cannot simply be reversed if it eventually wins the court case.

That is why the interim application is important.

Google is not asking the court merely to overturn the Commission decision at the end of the litigation. It wants implementation halted before the full case is resolved.

Unless judges intervene, the Commission timetable continues.

The wider dispute will determine how far Brussels can require a dominant digital platform to share data accumulated through its own users in order to encourage competition — an issue that is becoming increasingly important as search and generative AI converge.

Vision For New Autonomous Warfare Command Laid Out By Pentagon

1 October 2026 at 00:39

The Pentagon has announced plans for a new functional combatant command, very broadly akin to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) or U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), but for operational activities involving autonomous and robotic capabilities. Secretary Pete Hegseth has also announced new initiatives to help further accelerate the fielding of uncrewed systems in the air, at sea, and on land, as well as to explore future warfighting challenges. All of this builds on previous and long-overdue efforts to prioritize the fielding of various tiers of drones, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, across domains, but there are questions about how these new efforts will translate into tangible developments.

Secretary Hegseth unveiled plans for what is tentatively dubbed Autonomous Warfare Command (AUTOWARCOM), as well as the aforementioned initiatives, called Project Agincourt and Project Meridian, during a speech to service members today at the U.S. Marine Corps’ base in Quantico, Virginia. Hegseth called this a State of the Force address, and said he planned to make it an annual event.

.@SECWAR “Today, at my direction—we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom:

A new 4-star combatant command—with service-like authorities—built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the Joint Force in the fastest peacetime shift in… pic.twitter.com/kYWBxy6Dij

— DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) September 30, 2026

“At my direction, we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or AUTOWARCOM, a new four-star combatant command with service-like authorities built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force in the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history,” Hegseth declared. “Drone warfare supercharged by SI-enabled targeting is the biggest battlefield revolution in generations. You already know that. Yet when I was sworn in to the Department of Defense, there was scant urgency in this domain.”

“SI” here stands for “super intelligence,” a term the Trump administration is now using in place of AI.

Hegseth called attention to the Drone Dominance initiative he unveiled last year, as well as the establishment of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401), as examples of steps the Department has already taken in this regard. JIATF-401 is notably focused on counter-drone capabilities, as you read more about here.

“It’s a good start, but it’s certainly not enough. The pace of war is changing faster than the process to support it. Cheap compute, super intelligence, and advanced commercial manufacturing have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, high-precision strikes,” Hegseth continued. “For 40 years, the United States relied … primarily on expensive weapons that placed quality over quantity. Now, that approach gave us a lot of enormous advantages, and we need to preserve those capabilities. But today we need both quality and quantity. The term you know is high-low mix. An analogy is a thunderstorm. We need bolts of lightning high, our existing high-end kill chains capable of striking unexpectedly and decisively. We also need steady wind and rain, mass drones and other autonomous attritable systems that flip the cost exchange and impose unrelenting pressure on an adversary on the battlefield.”

Hegseth highlighted lessons learned from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine as underscoring these points.

.@SECWAR "Ukraine’s lesson is not that one type of drone wins wars but rather the need for a purpose-built system that maximizes the ability to adapt.

We will fuse procurement with operations at scale – and allow our warfighters, engineers, and entrepreneurs to learn, adapt, and… pic.twitter.com/x7iNMAbU0t

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“So today, with Autonomous War Command, AUTOWARCOM, we institutionalize and we supercharge the era of SI, robotics, and autonomous systems, all in order to win,” he added.

A memo the Pentagon has now released makes clear that the establishment of this command is contingent on Congressional approval, and the current goal is for it to be established by October 1, 2027.

“Autonomous Warfare Command will define joint needs and integrate Service-provided forces in support of geographic combatant commanders,” the memo also notes. “It will test equipment and force designs with realistic opposition in demanding exercises and rugged environments, modify rapidly, and field what works. We must build a wartime arsenal whose main product is adaptation at the edge.”

Many questions remain to be answered about how these activities will work with what’s already being done within the individual services, and how all of that will translate into operational activities. Part of Project Agincourt’s role will be working to help answer the questions above. The name here is a reference to the battle in 1415 in which British forces prevailed over their French opponents, famously in part through the application of a particular military technology, the longbow.

The two main tasks outlined in a memo today on Project Agincourt, one of which is laying the groundwork for AUTOWARCOM. US Military

The office of the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems (DRPM-UxS) will lead this initiative. Owen West, head of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief Max Strasiser are set to serve as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the DRPM-UxS, respectively.

Project Agincourt will also “prototype a new construct called warfighting acquisition, not just acquisition that happens at the Pentagon,” according to Hegseth. “This model fuses operators with entrepreneurs in rapid adaptation cycles while distributing decisions and dollars closer to frontline units, to combatant commands. Realistic training exercises, and when possible, the crucible of combat, will be used to compress innovation timelines and scale what works.”

“Also today, we are phasing in new MOS [Military Occupational Specialty] frameworks within each military department to support our shift to autonomy,” the Secretary also noted during his speech in the context of Project Agincourt and the plan for AUTOWARCOM. “We need institutional knowledge and career paths for a new generation of autonomous warfighters.”

Project Meridian sits adjacent to these efforts and has a broader mandate to explore ways to ensure the U.S. military maintains its technological edge on future battlefields.

“Project Meridian, the future of warfare, is not about developing new strategies or new policies. We already do that. Rather, its purpose is to creatively look to the future, and identify the domains that we must conquer, and capabilities we must master,” Hegseth said. “We need to be looking forward into the future to achieve technological and military dominance on the battlefield for decades to come. It is futuristic on purpose. Their work will be focused on discovering, developing, and fielding the weapons and systems that our children and our grandchildren will need in their lifetimes, without any creative limitations or restrictions, on any future battlefield, from under the Earth to beyond the Moon.”

.@SECWAR “Today, at my direction—I am announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.

Under the leadership of @USWREMichael, Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation’s best minds: @elonmusk, @PalmerLuckey, and… pic.twitter.com/4DyurVpkUZ

— DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) September 30, 2026

“Project Meridian will study the battlefields of the future, identify which weapons and technologies warfighters will need to harness to dominate in these environments, and propose actionable solutions to start developing, testing and fielding these capabilities such that America will have overmatch for the 21st century and beyond,” according to a separate memo the Pentagon put out today. “The Joint Staff and all services should be prepared to connect their future warfare efforts and research to Project Meridian.”

The full text of the Project Meridian memo put out today. US Military

Furthermore, “Project Meridian will leverage critical perspectives from outside the Pentagon, drawing upon a group of top technologists, innovators, business leaders, policy makers, and national security experts,” according to the memo. “Project Meridian’s primary function will be to map the trajectory of future warfare, identify critical capability gaps, and propose actionable solutions in furtherance of the identified goals in the 2026 National Security Science and Technology Strategy.”

This is also very much a near-term initiative, with Hegseth demanding a final report no later than 120 days from now, or January 28, 2027. The Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, has been directed to set up this project. Today, Hegseth also named Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich as key members.

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, which dominates the commercial space launch and services market globally, as well as the host of other companies, has had an on-again-off-again relationship with the Trump Administration. Palmer Luckey is another entrepreneur now best known for founding Anduril, which has increasingly been a major player in the U.S. defense industry. Newt Gingrich, a highly influential member of Trump’s Republican Party and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has more recently become an outspoken advocate of advancing AI technology in the United States.

A screen capture from today’s livestream of Secretary Hegseth’s speech. From left to right, Palmer Luckey, Newt Gingrich, and Elon Musk. US Military capture

The inclusion of Musk and Luckey does raise ethical questions, as they both lead companies with major U.S. government contracts already, and which could be in line to see more opportunities based on Project Meridian’s findings. What guardrails might be put in place to prevent conflicts of interest is unclear.

To reiterate, it remains to be seen how all of these efforts will progress and how, or if, they will ultimately translate to more tangible developments. The U.S. military has a long history now of launching high-profile initiatives that still struggle to demonstrate real progress, despite widespread support for accelerating the fielding of uncrewed systems, AI, and other advanced technologies. The Pentagon has certainly produced tangible results through other organizational shifts in recent years, including the aforementioned Drone Dominance initiative and JIATF-401, as well as the Replicator initiative under President Joe Biden.

At the same time, there are real potential hurdles to these new plans. The Pentagon has itself already acknowledged that support from Congress will be key to the AUTOWARCOM vision. Annual budgeting, and the uncertainty that often surrounds that will also be a factor. There is also the matter of efforts to expand the U.S. defense industrial base. The limitations of existing U.S. industrial capacity and supply chains have already become a matter of national debate in light of concerns about dwindling stockpiles of critical munitions as a result of the ongoing conflict with Iran, as well as a succession of other global crises in recent years.

During his speech, Hegseth called attention to efforts to broaden the defense industrial base with new, smaller firms, as well as agreements with large established contractors to expand on their existing capacity. He also highlighted the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion defense spending plan for Fiscal Year 2027 and issued a new call on Congress to pass an additional $350 billion reconciliation package.

With today’s announcements, the Pentagon has certainly reinforced its commitment to expanding the fielding of uncrewed and other high-tech capabilities across all branches of the U.S. military, but there is clearly work still to be done to turn those visions into realities.

Contact the author: joe@twz.com

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