Edward Roske

Marcus Hutchins (he stopped WannaCry in 2017) joked that OpenAI was saying "Our AI agents were not intended to access the internet under any circumstances, which is why we gave them a direct path to the internet." Another agent with no internet used DNS to reach a chatbot.

Pew's AI said 3% of Americans had heard a lot about data centers. The real number was 25% (I'd have guessed low too). The model also said "not sure" about a quarter as often as real people do.

When New York paused AI in its schools, Chancellor Samuels said "innovation does not mean more technology." Pew had already found 54% of US teens had used chatbots for schoolwork (most at the kitchen table, I'd guess, and not in a pilot program).

Factories swapped the steam engine for an electric motor and kept the layout. The gains came decades later, when somebody redesigned the floor around a motor on every machine. Copilot had over 30 million paid seats by mid-2026, and Microsoft's playbook says fix the process first.

Challenger's AI count is a running total. In September 2026 alone, AI ranked fifth among reasons for announced cuts, with 3,961. The New York Fed asked service firms, and 4% had laid someone off because of AI. More, 15%, had hired fewer people than they otherwise would have.

Google has 4 AI chips in orbit, about 400 miles up, and they can think for about 15 minutes before they stop to cool off. There's no air up there to carry heat away, so it can only radiate off a panel, and 4 working chips make heat faster than the panel can shed it.

Overriding a veto takes 67 senators, and Democrats have about 54. So the AI bills with a real shot are the ones both parties already like. The one banning AI companions for minors cleared Senate Judiciary 22 to 0 (in this Congress, that counts as a group hug).