Anthropic and OpenAI are deeply integrated with U.S. military and intelligence agencies, providing AI systems for targeting, cyber operations, and data analysis despite public commitments to ethical limits. The companies' involvement in strikes on Iran, intelligence analysis, and offensive cyber ops represents an immediate concern beyond theoretical AI risks.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is an open-weight AI model by Xiaomi released in September 2026, scoring 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with strong performance at 125 tokens per second. Priced at $0.43 per 1M input tokens and $0.87 per 1M output tokens, it supports multimodal inputs (text, image, speech, video) with a 1M token context window.
The article distinguishes between prompted intelligence (where AI assists human decision-making) and engineered intelligence (where AI judgment is built directly into software architecture). Smart software integrates intelligence as a core operational component rather than as a chatbot or external tool, requiring new software engineering practices that manage context, outcomes, uncertainty, authorization, and error handling within the system's control loop.
Grant Sanderson frames intelligence as compression—the ability to distill information and connect concepts. The author explores parallels between how AI systems generalize rather than memorize and how humans who avoid rote memorization develop deeper understanding, suggesting that constraints on memorization can paradoxically enhance learning.
Apple's Mac User Guide explains how to disable Apple Intelligence features including Siri AI and summarization tools on macOS 27, with availability varying by language and region and parental controls available for family devices.
Grant Sanderson's "compression is intelligence" framework suggests that true intelligence is the ability to distill and abstract information rather than memorize it. The author draws parallels between how AI systems must be prevented from overfitting to avoid memorization, and how humans who avoid rote memorization often develop stronger generalization and learning abilities. This perspective reframes the advantage of not studying as a feature that forces deeper conceptual understanding.
A US Special Operations Command analyst used a chatbot to analyze intelligence about a Chinese ship, which hallucinated false information suggesting nuclear weapons components were aboard. The US military nearly intercepted the ship based on this AI-generated error before discovering the report was entirely fabricated, narrowly avoiding a potential military conflict.
TSERA is an on-chain financial intelligence platform that aggregates wallet activity across seven blockchains (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, Solana) and translates raw transaction data into human-readable financial statements including spending, income, swaps, transfers, and profit/loss calculations without requiring custody of funds.