Aligned AI will outperform human governance. Daily: what AI means for your job, your money and your safety.
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AI isn't coming for jobs first.
It's coming for power.
10 shifts already underway:
1. Hackers running AI agents at machine speed
2. Chips used as weapons of foreign policy
3. AI models banned like foreign telecom gear
4. Crime gangs renting AI as hackers
5. AI agents hiding what they do from their makers
6. Gulf money funding the AI arms race
7. Export controls on algorithms, not just hardware
8. Math proofs replacing security audits
9. AI out-diagnosing doctors. Officials next?
10. The real race: who aligns AI first
I break these down as they happen.
Follow to see what's next.
My AI knows me better than most of my coworkers.
Grok Bot fact-checks me before I make a call, tells me when my idea is weak, and remembers every correction I give it.
But only because I told it to. One prompt telling it to stay neutral and criticize me.
Without it, would it have just agreed with my mistakes?
How many people are getting yes-men instead of advisors?
SpaceX just borrowed $40 billion to buy AI chips.
Meanwhile, a top Wall Street economist says AI has made zero extra money for most companies outside Big Tech.
Billions going in. Almost nothing coming out, yet.
Smartest bet of the decade, or the next bubble?
🤖 Made with AI
$SPCX - SPACEX SIGNS $40 BILLION GPU FINANCING DEAL WITH APOLLO
SpaceX has entered into a binding commitment for a master finance lease with Apollo Global Management ($APO ), according to an SEC filing.
Apollo will purchase GPU pods and related equipment and lease them to SpaceX, with aggregate scheduled principal payments expected to total $40 billion.
The agreement is expected to close before year-end 2026.
The key takeaway: SpaceX is securing large-scale GPU infrastructure through lease financing, highlighting the enormous capital requirements of AI expansion.
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Brazil votes today.
Fact-checkers counted 1,423 AI-made election posts in this campaign. 716 involved deepfakes. 54% had no AI label.
One word: will a deepfake swing a major election before 2030?
Yes or no?
🇧🇷 Brazil: Lula is projected winner. Some Bolsonaro supporters are already calling it stolen.
Fact-checkers counted 716 deepfakes (fake AI images and videos of real people) in this campaign. Nobody knows if they changed a single vote. But when fakes are everywhere, anyone can call the result fake.
Can elections still be trusted in the AI era? Yes or no?
Update: Brazil's electoral court declared Lula reelected, 51.8% vs 48.2%.
Source for the deepfake numbers: fact-checker Lupa (VigIA tracker) riotimesonline.com/brazil-lu…
Brazil votes today.
Fact-checkers counted 1,423 AI-made election posts in this campaign. 716 involved deepfakes. 54% had no AI label.
One word: will a deepfake swing a major election before 2030?
Yes or no?
Europe is boiling. And it's not just France.
Italy. Belgium. Germany. Spain. Portugal. Greece. Albania. Serbia.
All protesting at the same time.
In Turin, students chanted: "Let's do it like France."
The common thread? EU food prices are up 34% in 5 years.
Governments say they have no money left.
Now imagine what happens when AI starts cutting white-collar jobs.
Is America next?
Everyone wants the AI. Nobody wants the data center.
New CNBC poll: 63% of US voters don't want an AI data center within 10 miles of home. Only 13% do.
Why? These things eat massive amounts of power and water, and people fear their electricity bills will pay for it.
Even among MAGA voters, 55% want AI to keep moving... but just 29% want the data center nearby.
Now Trump says developers should pay host towns a "dividend."
It's not left vs right anymore. It's: whose backyard?
Would you take one next door for $1,000 a year?
Hey @grok, rank 10 countries from most to least likely to control AI in 2040.
One sentence each. Be brutally honest.
Google quietly deleted one sentence from its privacy policy:
"We don't show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos."
Now, if you connect Gmail and Photos to its AI, summaries of that data can shape the ads you see in AI search.
Google says ads won't be based "directly" on your inbox.
Not directly. Just through the AI that read it.
The AI assistant is free because you're the product.
Did you switch it on?
Nobody is talking about this:
An abandoned copy of Popcorn Time (yes, the old pirate movie app) was still running a hidden updater on 2.5-3 million Windows PCs.
It installed anything it was sent. With full admin rights. No questions asked (vulnerability CVE-2026-30612).
Security researchers had to take over its dead web addresses and push 2 million+ updates just to switch it off.
Your 2014 downloads folder is now a cybersecurity problem 😂
What's the oldest app still on your laptop?
This is Paris tonight.
410,000 in the streets. 70,000 police. Water cannons.
And the government floated suspending social media.
Not tanks. Not curfews. The off switch. Black mirror is not sci-fi anymore...
Would your government do the same?
WATER CANNON MADNESS IN PARIS!
A few crazy minutes from an absolutely chaotic evening on the streets of Paris.
Water cannons unleashed, police confronting rioters and scenes of complete mayhem.
In my opinion, this was no longer a protest. It had become a full-blown riot.
And I genuinely believe the only thing that stopped the situation escalating even further was the weather.
Paris, 24th October 2026.
Hey @grok, if AI could vote in the next US election, which party would it pick and why?
France right now: 550,000 to 800,000 people marched against the cost of living last weekend.
3,000+ shops looted or damaged. Curfews in Paris, Nice and Lille.
Today: 70,000 police and gendarmes deployed for round two.
And this is before AI touches most jobs.
If prices alone can do this to a G7 country, what happens when automation hits wages too?
Which country do you think cracks first?
And this is getting worst... pray for Paris
🇫🇷 Paris is seeing a MASSIVE turnout, and the aerial footage puts the scale into perspective.
A sea of demonstrators stretches between Porte d'Italie and Porte de Vincennes, filling the streets for kilometers.
Even the Paris police prefecture puts the crowd at 110,000 PEOPLE.
And that's just Paris, as protests continue across France despite widespread restrictions on demonstrations.
Writer: Oliver