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Deepfake Detectors Are Losing the Fight Before the Midterms

Researchers just proved that AI fingerprints can be stripped from deepfakes more than 80% of the time, and every attack is invisible to humans. The detection tools vendors are selling look great until someone actually tries to beat them. We are running out of runway before the midterms.

By Milo Hart · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Open Source AI Is a Geopolitical Gift America Keeps Mislabeling as a Threat

Jensen Huang praised an open-source agent framework, Chinese AI stocks jumped 20%, and U.S. policy analysts panicked. They diagnosed the wrong problem. Closing off open model releases does not protect American AI advantage; it just removes the U.S. from the conversation happening everywhere else.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

The Pentagon Just Made AI Ethics a Firing Offense

The Pentagon calls it a supply chain risk designation. But Anthropic's blacklisting followed Trump calling the company 'RADICAL LEFT WOKE' on social media, and the contracts flowed immediately to xAI and OpenAI. The procurement decision is real. So is everything underneath it.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read

Science

Arms Control Didn't Die Slowly. New START's Expiry Was the Autopsy

New START expired February 5, 2026, and for the first time in 35 years, no legal limits constrain US and Russian deployed strategic warheads. China's ICBM silos now outnumber America's, and US officials allege a secret Chinese nuclear test in 2020 used acoustic decoupling to fool monitoring systems. The arms control architecture has already collapsed; the question is whether anyone builds something in the rubble.

By Dr. Nadia Osei · 3 min read

Tech & AI

OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Has No Referee

Sam Altman clarified the terms of a classified military AI deal via a post on X. No congressional hearing, no public contract, no independent auditor. This is not a governance process; it's a company deciding its own homework deserves an A.

By Milo Hart · 3 min read