OpenAI’s “GPUs are melting”, announced CEO Sam Altman last Thursday as he scrambled to avert a ChatGPT apocalypse. What triggered the sudden shutdown? Not a cyberattack, nor a Terminator-style takeover. Rather, it was legions of users transfiguring themselves into Studio …
Will AI drones fill the DOGE void?
Elon Musk’s DOGE has introduced some novel mental states into various parts of the American polity. Among its supporters, one finds both triumphalism and confusion. Among its opponents, one finds outrage, or sadness, or alarm, or all of these things …
How Musk is crashing Tesla
In hindsight, the farts were a giveaway. A few years ago, I was getting a lift in a Tesla Model Y, when the driver (a friend of a friend) offered to show me some of the car’s innovative features. Tesla …
Covid Response at Five Years: The Fourth Amendment
Covid Response at Five Years: The Fourth Amendment
by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute
AI, mRNA, Cancer Vaccines, and “Stargate”
AI, mRNA, Cancer Vaccines, and “Stargate”
by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute
Yes, I know that is actually Grok drawing an assembled DNA strand and a “Stargate.” I tried and tried, but Grok just could not understand what mRNA structure …
Can First Principles Fortify the Fourth Amendment?
Can First Principles Fortify the Fourth Amendment?
by Daniel Nuccio at Brownstone Institute
For US citizens, the kind of population-level surveillance one typically associates with China is not an uncertain or abstract future threat. Although less advanced than what one …
Can First Principles Fortify the Fourth Amendment?
Can First Principles Fortify the Fourth Amendment?
by Daniel Nuccio at Brownstone Institute
For US citizens, the kind of population-level surveillance one typically associates with China is not an uncertain or abstract future threat. Although less advanced than what one …
Keir Starmer’s foolish China strategy
Last month’s release of DeepSeek’s latest AI model shattered assumptions about Silicon Valley’s technological exceptionalism. Some have even called it China’s “Sputnik moment”. But China’s rise to the frontier of AI is no accident. It is the product of decades …
Facebook’s Flip-Flop
Facebook’s Flip-Flop
by Carl Heneghan at Brownstone Institute
In the days leading up to the incoming Trump administration, Mark Zuckerberg reversed his stance on fact-checking.
In a video announcing these changes, Zuckerberg admitted that their efforts to address this issue had created …
China’s unstoppable STEM army
Donald Trump called it a “wake-up call”; Marc Andreessen called it a “Sputnik moment”. By all accounts, the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model was a bombshell. Not only is the Chinese AI model highly intelligent, but it was supposedly far …
The Analog versus the Digital Worlds
The Analog versus the Digital Worlds
by Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute
This piece is going to be an exploration of my own thoughts gathered at this point in ‘time’ on the subject matter of the analog versus the digital …
The Unfinished War on Crypto
The Unfinished War on Crypto
by Aaron Day at Brownstone Institute
The past two weeks have been nothing short of surreal. If you’ve been following my journey over the last two and a half years, you know I’ve devoted my …
To Celebrate Simple Gifts
To Celebrate Simple Gifts
by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
‘Tis the gift to come down where we …
Big Pharma Continues to Hide the Truth
Big Pharma Continues to Hide the Truth
by Harvey Risch at Brownstone Institute
On Thursday, Joe Rogan and Marvel megastar Josh Brolin traded stories about the preponderance of Covid vaccine injuries among their friends. Brolin even described contracting “a mild …
Technocracy, Fear-Mongers, and the Conspiracy
Technocracy, Fear-Mongers, and the Conspiracy
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
The term, ‘conspiracy theory’ became part of common parlance during the ‘Covid era,’ but although all of us know what it refers to – and who are supposed to …
