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Sakana AI’s new predictive coding model achieves just 85% on MNIST, prompting the AI community to dismiss it. But in rushing to mock its empirical performance, we are ignoring a biologically plausible learning algorithm that maps to the brain’s Free Energy Principle—and repeating the exact mistake we made with backpropagation decades ago.
The US military just disabled ad trackers on troops’ phones, but this isn’t a privacy win. It’s an admission that commercial adtech is an unregulated intelligence vulnerability. If the Pentagon doesn’t trust these trackers with soldier locations, why are civilians still broadcasting their data to anyone with a credit card? Privacy is now a privilege reserved for the powerful.
The AI video market is a bloodbath, with a 98.7% failure rate for domestic content. As giants like ByteDance and Tencent pivot overseas, the battleground has shifted from single-point generation quality to full-chain capability. The real moat isn’t a better AI model—it’s owning the entire production-to-distribution loop.
The August 2026 cyberattack on the 911 system in Suisun City, California, wasn’t just a technical failure—it was a live-fire test of asymmetric warfare. When a hostile nation-state can paralyze our emergency infrastructure without crossing a physical border, traditional deterrence collapses. Yet, the media remains silent. If a foreign power can sever your lifeline with a line of code, what happens when you actually need help?
ICE’s new policy to release body cam footage only when it serves the agency’s ‘best interests’ turns a tool of transparency into a weapon of selective prosecution. When the state controls the evidence, cameras don’t protect citizens—they build cases against them while shielding officers from accountability.
Senator Wyden’s data center tax isn’t a revenue grab—it’s a direct challenge to the tech industry’s free ride on America’s energy grid. While AI giants reap billions, local ratepayers absorb the costs of strained infrastructure. This debate isn’t about taxes; it’s about who ultimately foots the bill for the physical demands of digital ambition.
New Orleans is replacing human 911 dispatchers with AI. It’s not about innovation — it’s a liability transfer from the city to a private vendor, with the public absorbing the cost of failure. The only acceptable failure rate in emergency response is zero, and no AI system can promise that. This is a template for your city.