Turkish President Erdogan gave every leader at the NATO summit a personally engraved vintage .357 Magnum with six live rounds. The gifts immediately created legal chaos: Belgium's PM had to hand his to police, Canada's Carney took the gun but left the ammo behind, and others decommissioned theirs at embassies. Turkey is now the world's third-largest exporter of small arms.
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The Cambridge paper — titled 'God Has Helped Us and So Will AI: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI' — gives the hosts a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging conversation about AI governance failure. Boko Haram members describe using Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok in three ways: learning to assemble weapons and manufacture bombs, improving surveillance, and planning specific attacks. One fighter says AI told them which chemicals to add to make their bombs 'heavier.' ISIS has dedicated AI units. Ben argues this is the predictable consequence of building transformative technology entirely in private hands with no regulation, no legislation, no international dialogue between the US and China, and no UN summits. Even if US companies add safety filters, open-source replicas will replicate the dangerous capabilities — a dark AI will emerge just as the dark web did. Tommy adds parallel threats: North Korean coders infiltrating US tech companies, AI-generated targeting for military strikes, and the bio-threat frontier where AI could help synthesize novel pathogens faster than any defensive response. Ben's bottom line: there's no single villain — the overall failure is that we cannot slow down long enough to put rules around a technology that companies insist is the most transformative in human history.
A Cambridge University study based on interviews with 27 former Boko Haram fighters found the group used AI chatbots to design explosives, plan attacks, and improve operational security.
A Boko Haram member told Cambridge researchers that before AI, their bombs were smaller, but AI told them which chemicals to add to make explosives more powerful.
Even if US AI companies add safety filters, open-source replicas won't have them — and there will be a dark AI just like there is a dark web. Ben Rhodes says the US and China, the two AI superpowers, have had zero diplomatic dialogue about any of this. No legislation, no international summits, nothing.
Nicole Perlroth's reporting at the New York Times revealed that North Korea trains elite coders and gets them hired as IT employees at major US tech companies, giving them insider access to critical systems. Some companies, knowing this, are reluctant to fire them because they're genuinely good at their jobs.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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