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A red-teamer spent three weeks inside Anthropic pretending to be a rogue Claude. What he found about how easily current models could go off-script is the AI safety story of the year so far.

Noah Smith's argument is absolute and backed by Ukraine evidence: if your military isn't drone-centric, it's a museum piece. A thesis that will start arguments at every dinner table this week.

Scholze and Clausen aren't tweaking math — they're ripping out topology's most basic concept and replacing it. Quanta explains what that means and why it might reshape how we understand numbers.

The most expensive infrastructure failure in U.S. history, dissected with Wendover's trademark clarity. How did a bullet train end up as a $100B lesson in what not to do?

A book about AI's threat to truth… is full of quotes made up by AI. You cannot script irony this perfect. The single best encapsulation of where we are right now.