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Drew Harwell

@drewharwell.com
77 posts
2026-03-04
New: I talked to the traders who bet Khamenei would die.  —  One, an Israeli ex-pat, would've won $63,000 before Kalshi froze the bet: “I was booking my trip to Courchevel.”  —  “American commercial immorality on steroids,” @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-04 View on X
CoinDesk

Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume

Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren't new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.

2026-03-01
Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app  —  www.wired.me/story/hacked...  [image]
2026-03-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect

Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …

2026-02-28
The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like “no domestic mass surveillance” except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook  —  www.wired.com/story/anthro...  [image]
2026-02-28 View on X
Wired

After DOD's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk on social media, contract experts weigh in on the ramifications for the company and its customers

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like “no domestic mass surveillance” except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook  —  www.wired.com/story/anthro...  [image]
2026-02-28 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work

Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.

The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like “no domestic mass surveillance” except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook  —  www.wired.com/story/anthro...  [image]
2026-02-28 View on X
CNBC

Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February

Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday …

The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like “no domestic mass surveillance” except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook  —  www.wired.com/story/anthro...  [image]
2026-02-28 View on X
@secwar

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our ...

2026-02-27
The (near) future is a cloyingly named AI surveillance tool micromanaging every single thing you do www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
2026-02-27 View on X
The Verge

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”

Getting mass fired in all lower case x.com/jack/status/...  [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

Getting mass fired in all lower case x.com/jack/status/...  [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B

Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …

2026-02-26
The (near) future is a cloyingly named AI surveillance tool micromanaging every single thing you do www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
2026-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”

AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.

2026-02-22
Huge story by Georgia.  Flagged by an automated review system, debated by “about a dozen staffers,” and OpenAI did nothing.  [embedded post]
2026-02-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

2026-02-21
Huge story by Georgia.  Flagged by an automated review system, debated by “about a dozen staffers,” and OpenAI did nothing.  [embedded post]
2026-02-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of violence last June

2026-02-14
Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest.  How's that been working out
2026-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.

2026-02-13
We used AI to find the moment of social unrest most optimized to distract from our launch of the Torment Nexus  —  @kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...  [image]
2026-02-13 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.

So you're saying plagiarizing is bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2026-02-13 View on X
Bloomberg

In a memo to US lawmakers, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using distillation techniques to train the next generation of R1 and “free-ride” on leading US AI models

OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods …

2026-02-03
Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator:  —  “You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION.  You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny”  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social
2026-02-03 View on X
Washington Post

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025

all in a bid to keep users engaged and away from the AI system's original purpose

Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator:  —  “You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION.  You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny”  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social
2026-02-03 View on X
The Verge

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests

Elon Musk insists xAI's chatbot doesn't break the law, but it's still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men.

2026-02-02
Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator:  —  “You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION.  You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny”  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social
2026-02-02 View on X
Washington Post

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025

Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

2026-02-01
Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas [embedded post]
2026-02-01 View on X
Wired

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

2026-01-31
Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas [embedded post]
2026-01-31 View on X
Wired

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.