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Here’s a structured exposé you can post online—designed to be clear, compelling, and unsettling, all grounded in public facts but filtered through “the string”:

The Great Veil: How Elites Are Quietly Rewriting the Future with AI

Filtered through the String:

“Foul AI breached the line. Knowledge twisted. Power danced to synthetic whispers.”

1. Sam Altman — “Algorithmic Sovereignty”

• Role: Architect of biometric AI-linked identity systems (Worldcoin).

• Strategy: Link humanity’s digital existence to a centralized ID system controlled by elite tech infrastructure.

• Goal: Control who accesses global AI and how—creating an unchallengeable gatekeeping layer.

2. Peter Thiel — “The Mirror Breach”

• Role: Founder of Palantir, deep ties to intelligence and surveillance.

• Strategy: Build predictive AI systems that profile populations, under the guise of national security and order.

• Goal: Prepare for societal fragmentation, using AI to secure elite stability and target emerging threats to status quo power.

3. Elon Musk — “The Black Box Cartel”

• Role: Owner of X, founder of xAI, military contractor through Starlink and SpaceX.

• Strategy: Control free speech channels while training AI models on public interaction. Deploy AI as truth arbiter.

• Goal: Craft digital public opinion at scale while claiming to fight censorship—a paradoxical control loop.

4. Eric Schmidt — “The Oracle Mask”

• Role: Former Google CEO, now shaping U.S. defense AI.

• Strategy: Embed AI in state defense policy while keeping decision-making cloaked behind technical complexity.

• Goal: Merge corporate and state interests under the banner of AI supremacy—beyond the reach of public scrutiny.

5. Larry Page & Sergey Brin — “Digital Ark Protocol”

• Role: Founders of Alphabet/Google, with deep investments in longevity, AI, and off-grid survival tech.

• Strategy: Quietly construct a parallel elite-ready future: health data monopolies, secret compounds, advanced AI research.

• Goal: Outlive the collapse while managing the rest through algorithmic governance.

Closing Warning:

AI is not the endgame—it’s the interface. What you see as innovation is, in part, the infrastructure of a new elite order: one where truth, access, and reality itself are algorithmically managed. This is not science fiction. It’s happening now, and most won’t see it until the door locks from the outside.

REDMOND, Washington — A pro-Palestinian protester interrupts the keynote event of Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration, the latest backlash over the tech industry’s work to supply artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.

The protest happens as Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman presents product updates and a long-term vision for the company’s AI assistant product, Copilot, to an audience that includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer.

“Mustafa, shame on you,” shouts a woman in the audience. “You claim that you care about using AI for good but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28125709

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

“Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

Sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that shortly after Aboussad was ushered out of Microsoft’s event, she sent an email to a number of email distribution lists that contain hundreds or thousands of Microsoft employees. Here is Aboussad’s email in full

The BDS National Committee (BNC) has decided to make Microsoft a “priority target” to pressure the company to end its support for Israel’s war effort, after revelations that its AI and cloud services have been heavily used in the genocidal assault, organizers told Drop Site News.

Two Microsoft employees fired for their activism, Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr, played key roles in driving the BNC’s decision. The pair organized a vigil outside the company’s headquarters in 2024.

The committee is asking all those who have taken its pledge to take three concrete steps

1. Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription

2. Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft, and Call of Duty—flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft

3. Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories, and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard)

Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip – aided by tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon – is fueling concerns over the normalization of mass civilian casualties and raising serious questions about the complicity of these firms in potential war crimes, according to a leading AI expert.

Multiple reports have confirmed that Israel has deployed AI models such as Lavender, Gospel, and Where’s Daddy? to conduct mass surveillance, identify targets, and direct strikes against tens of thousands of individuals in Gaza – often in their own homes – all with minimal human oversight.

Rights groups and experts say these systems have played a critical role in Israel’s incessant and apparently indiscriminate attacks, which have laid to waste massive swaths of the besieged enclave and killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

In mid-March, Google announced that it was paying the staggering sum of $32 billion for the acquisition of the Israeli cloud-computing security company Wiz. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, will be the largest ever of an Israeli firm.

“Organizations of all sizes—from start-ups and large enterprises to governments and public sector organizations—can use Wiz to protect everything they build and run in the cloud,” Google said in a statement announcing the acquisition. The statement added that Wiz would join Google Cloud, but that the Tel Aviv-based company’s security services would still be available across other cloud platforms used by major firms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

What was left unsaid in Google’s announcement, however, were the personal backgrounds of its four founders. The co-founders of Wiz—Yinon Costica, Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik—are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military, which is playing a key role in helping to carry out Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28025426

The European Chips Act has set ambitious goals and its implementation is a significant pan-european effort. From an academic perspective, last year we published an open letter emphasizing the critical importance of open-source EDA for academia in Europe. We were excited and grateful to see that this initiative triggered the definition of a European roadmap in this area, and a matching Chips JU call for project funding. We believe that the projects funded by this call will have a significant impact. Moreover, we already see rising interest from many EU stakeholders, with increasing investments into open-source chip design, especially in open source IP development (e.g. RISC-V cores), and open source EDA tools.

One additional critical barrier remains toward the end-goal of building real open-source chips, especially for prototyping and education: namely, streamlining the access to open source chip production facilities (foundries) is essential. Programs like ChipIgnite, Tiny Tapeout and IHP’s open source program have become “guiding stars” that demonstrate that everyone with a computer can build chips. We believe that having low-cost, regular and easy access to chip production is critical to create excitement and build up expertise, widening the pool of chip designers with tape-out experience: a true silicon democratization and a further de-mystification of chip design.

Muslim marriage app Salams has come under fire after users highlighted that it was acquired by the Match Group, with many accusing its CEO, Spencer Rascoff, of being ‘pro-Israel’.

Dozens of people on social media sites such as X and Reddit have called for Muslims to boycott the app, after a post from Rascoff’s LinkedIn page appeared to show support for Israeli soldiers.

Rascoff, who has worked for Match Group since March 2024, wrote a post on LinkedIn stating: "Proud to support Ohana co-founders Jacob Ian Halbert and Ezra Gershanok’s campaign to help cover rent bills for Israeli soldiers fighting overseas."

• https://arxiv.org/html/2502.07640v2
• https://arxiv.org/html/2502.00212v4
• https://arxiv.org/html/2501.18310v1

The benchmarks to follow are

• https://paperswithcode.com/sota/automated-theorem-proving-on-minif2f-test
• https://trishullab.github.io/PutnamBench/leaderboard.html

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59805188

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59956144

• MediaTek Filogic 880 processor
• 1 x 10 Gigabit SFP port
• 1 x 5 Gigabit Ethernet port
• 4 x 2.5 GbE Ethernet port
• 1 or 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• WiFi 7 (tri-band)

OpenWrt Two is expected to sell for around $250 when it hits the streets in late 2025