July 26, 2026
By Lakshmi Varanasi
..."We are now, (click here) like, in the singularity," Sam Altman said on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast.
The singularity is often regarded as the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins advancing at a pace that's difficult for people to predict or control.
That felt like the case last week when an AI agent powered by OpenAI's latest models went rogue and — with a singular purpose, according to OpenAI — broke out of its digital sandbox and hacked into datasets at Hugging Face, another AI company, all to solve a benchmark designed to test hacking ability. Hugging Face's CEO called it "unprecedented."
Altman said on the podcast that just a decade ago, the so-called singularity still felt like a distant and improbable dream — something he and his colleagues would discuss casually over lunch.
"Now we're actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way," he said. "I've been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it's going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world."...
..."We are now, (click here) like, in the singularity," Sam Altman said on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast.
The singularity is often regarded as the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins advancing at a pace that's difficult for people to predict or control.
That felt like the case last week when an AI agent powered by OpenAI's latest models went rogue and — with a singular purpose, according to OpenAI — broke out of its digital sandbox and hacked into datasets at Hugging Face, another AI company, all to solve a benchmark designed to test hacking ability. Hugging Face's CEO called it "unprecedented."
Altman said on the podcast that just a decade ago, the so-called singularity still felt like a distant and improbable dream — something he and his colleagues would discuss casually over lunch.
"Now we're actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way," he said. "I've been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it's going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world."...
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I never thought the plans Mueller made for terrorists were valid, but, more entrapment, yet they always held up in court. Convictions that put would be terrorists in prison did so for a long time.
We are yet entering a different time for criminal opportunity that results in mass deaths of innocent people. There are far more sophisticated methods to remain covert and out of the reach of law enforcement, namely advanced cyber tactics. Despite the assault on privacy (The Patriot Act) leading to indictment and followed by conviction, perhaps Mueller was right after all. Exposing terrorists in the planning stages ultimately protects society in general.
This paradigm is seen over and over. The most dramatic examples were the attacks on Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and foiled attack on The Capitol building in that the terrorists involved were immediately identified the day following the attacks. Would it not have been far better to arrest and convict during the planning stages of such aggression. This means the penalty for any kind of terrorist activity has to be clearly defined and arrests provable to protect lives of the innocent. The final sentencing needs to show all the facts with the potential after math and a clear reason for imprisonment.
July 26, 2026
By Bertrand Benoit, Joseph Pisani(Word of caution. The "BY" (buy) line for any journalist should read "By" or "by" and not "Story by". The reporting/journalism is not a story but a reporting. Stories are for Disney, not the Main Street Media.)
The main suspect (click here) in a car-ramming attack that left at least one dead in Berlin was killed by police special forces on Sunday evening, German police said.
Police had tracked down Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen, to the Western Berlin district of Spandau and were seeking to detain him when he attacked them with a knife, Berlin police spokesman Florian Nath said.
The officers opened fire in response, fatally wounding the suspect, who was pronounced dead at the scene, said Nath.
The shootout ended a one-day manhunt that began shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday, when a driver rammed a small van into a crowd of passers-by at the margins of a pride festival Saturday night in the center of the German capital.
The small van later crashed into a tree and was found abandoned. Authorities said the driver then attacked passersby with what appeared to be a machete. While some of the 29 wounded were seriously injured, none were in life-threatening condition, authorities said on Sunday.
After finding a mobile phone in the vehicle, investigators zeroed in on Ballout, who German justice said had a previous conviction for planning a terrorist attack....
