Building a legacy worth inheriting. CEO of Layton Ventures. Former CIO of ICAN. Co-creator and Former Senior Producer of The HighWire with Del Bigtree.
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Patrick Layton retweeted
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Patrick Layton retweeted
BREAKING: "Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble," per AFR
Patrick Layton retweeted
"You can be the FDA commissioner provided you say that all vaccines are safe and effective."
"But isn't the job of the FDA to be vigilant in post-market surveillance and come to independent conclusions in light of evidence? Plus, it is impossible to say that any drug is 100% effective and 100% safe."
"Then you cannot be FDA commissioner"
"Why do you even need an FDA commissioner if the main questions he or she is supposed to decide are already decided?"
"We don't. We just need someone to fill that chair to hide that the industry which pays all of us is really running things."
"Wouldn't taking such a job be professionally disreputable?"
"On the contrary: after your tenure, you can work for pharma."
"Seems like a racket"
"It is, which is precisely why we need your pledge to go along."
"If I'm confirmed, can I make reforms?"
"No."
"To be clear, you are just looking for a figurehead and nothing more."
"Correct."
"If I refuse?"
"We'll find someone who will cooperate."
"I have to think about this."
"Just say the words, dammit!"
Patrick Layton retweeted
It’s always a message of fear. My entire life. Nuclear winter, killer bees, acid rain, global warming, rebranded climate change, Covid, now AI. Reject the demonic spirit of fear.
Patrick Layton retweeted
If you think *that* post stirred up the vaccine industry shills, wait until you see how they respond to this:
The govt (DOJ)/vaccine industry's chief expert witness that specialized in denying the vaccine autism link *changed his mind* based on advancing scientific knowledge. He said vaccines can cause autism, after all, in exceptional cases, and that he personally treated some. This is like the robber's best friend admitting his friend pulled the job.
If Dr. Zimmerman had come down the other way, the vaccine industry and their propagandists would declare it "settled science."
But since he came down the "wrong way" on this key issue worth so much $$$$, the vaccine cultists have bent themselves into pretzels trying to minimize him, his findings, spin it. See how they reply to this post for entertaining pretzel-ing.
The fact is: if vaccines triggered autism in one child with mitochondrial disorder, it's silly to conclude that's the only child on the planet it could happen to. Quite the opposite. Now that a biological mechanism is identified, it implies more instances. Perhaps many more. (Scientists say today mitochondrial dysfunction is more common than we knew when Dr. Zimmerman labeled it as a factor in vaccine-induced-autism.)
Secondly, many other predispositions can cause autism when triggered by vaccines, but the medical health establishment has made no public investment in identifying them.
For example, vaccine court and the government have acknowledged kids born with tuberous sclerosis also had autism triggered by vaccination. The government has paid awards to some of those families for that reason.
Hannah was described as normal, happy and precocious in her first 18 months.
Then, in July 2000, she was vaccinated against nine diseases in one doctor's visit: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae.
Afterward, her health declined rapidly. She developed high fevers, stopped eating, didn't respond when spoken to, began showing signs of autism, and began having screaming fits.
In 2002, Hannah's parents filed an autism claim in federal vaccine court. Five years later, the government admitted vaccines caused her autism, settled quietly before it could become a landmark case, and had it sealed.
CDC officials continued to call the vaccine-autism link "debunked" and a "quack" theory.
Patrick Layton retweeted
Hannah was described as normal, happy and precocious in her first 18 months.
Then, in July 2000, she was vaccinated against nine diseases in one doctor's visit: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae.
Afterward, her health declined rapidly. She developed high fevers, stopped eating, didn't respond when spoken to, began showing signs of autism, and began having screaming fits.
In 2002, Hannah's parents filed an autism claim in federal vaccine court. Five years later, the government admitted vaccines caused her autism, settled quietly before it could become a landmark case, and had it sealed.
CDC officials continued to call the vaccine-autism link "debunked" and a "quack" theory.
Patrick Layton retweeted
#NVIC Measles Disease & Vaccine Quick Facts
"As of July 31, 2026, there have been 120,269 reports of measles-vaccine reactions, hospitalizations, injuries, and deaths following measles vaccinations made to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), including 587 related deaths, 9,401 hospitalizations, and 2,288 related disabilities Approximately 50 percent of those adverse events occurred in children under three years of age."
Learn more at NVIC ➡️ nvic.org/disease-vaccine/mea…
#VAERS #Measles #MMR #VaccineInjury #VaccineDeath
Patrick Layton retweeted
My Texas First Data Center Plan will protect our grid, our communities, and our children while ensuring America beats Communist China in the AI race.
Texas First. Always.
🤖 Made with AI
Patrick Layton retweeted
Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It’s Building God
@Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.
@bgurley:
“Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do.
And my initial theory was the regulatory capture theory. Quite frankly, I think they're very close to achieving that.
But then they just got so loud that I've literally, in the past 30 days, read everything I can about Anthropic, and I've come up with a new theory.
I call it the Dr. Frankenstein theory.
The more I dig, I've met people who, I dare say, think it's their responsibility, and they're excited about, building a species that's superior to humans.
Dario wrote this blog post called ‘Machines of Loving Grace.’ It was based on a poem.
The last stanza of the poem says, ‘I like to think of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors, and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.’
Sounds like an overlord to me.
And then in Dario's post, he says, ‘It could be a capitalist economy of AI systems which then give out resources to humans based on some secondary economy of what the AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans…’
So I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here.”
Jason:
“These are delusions of grandeur. Let's call it what it is.
They believe that they're so powerful, these individuals, that they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species.
It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.”
Patrick Layton retweeted
Even if the current autism numbers are not 1 in 30 (there’s been lots of fraud in obtaining diagnoses to grab benefits), the numbers are massive. Everyone knows someone with a special needs child. This was extremely rare when I grew up. Del Bigtree is doing heroic work.
Del Bigtree delivered a masterclass response to a reporter challenging him on vaccines and autism.
The reporter asked if he’s “worried” about the risk of not vaccinating.
This was his response:
“You know what I am afraid of?”
“Because of the studies that I have looked at and the interviews I have done, I can tell you that vaccines are causing autism.”
“I am afraid of an issue that is 1 in 30.”
“Not 1 in 10,000 like measles.”
“Vaccines are causing neurodevelopmental disorders.”
“Vaccines are causing speech delays.”
“All of these things, separately, are listed in vaccine inserts.”
“They know they cause speech delays, tics, seizures, encephalitis, and brain swelling.”
“I’ve interviewed parents whose children will never get married.”
“And may never be able to have the life that was given to them by God.”
“Their life, whose inalienable rights this nation is supposed to protect.”
“I’m afraid of that for my kids.”
@delbigtree @MAHA_Institute
Patrick Layton retweeted
Even if you don't believe in God, try to reorder your soul in light with religious principles, even if you don't accept a religion. The attacks will be immediate. As they say, "The devil will never interrupt you when you're sinning." Stay from sin and then it gets real.
Patrick Layton retweeted
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: President Trump to sign an executive order calling for more vaccine flexibility and research with @SecKennedy. WATCH LIVE: 👇 teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1AxRnZakj…
Patrick Layton retweeted
"I'm pleading the Fifth 😂😂
You've gotta be kidding me" ~ @AaronRodgers12
#PMSLive
Patrick Layton retweeted
🚨 LMFAO! HHS Sec. Bobby Kennedy QUICKLY out-matched CNN's Dana Bash, causing her to get visibly upset
RFK: I'm trying to find out why autism is rising!
BASH: Have you checked on people's DNA?
RFK: You probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist, but genes don't cause—
BASH: You're not either!
RFK: Genes don't cause it, you need an environmental cause. YOUR statement, you have been fooled, that this has been studied! It is categorically NOT TRUE.
BASH: It is considered—
RFK: Considered by WHO?!
BASH: By every scientist who has studied this
RFK: That is NOT TRUE. I can give you hundreds of scientists who have looked at this and say why isn't it studied!
Patrick Layton retweeted
Some people spend their lives searching for purpose.
Trish lived hers.
Today we honor Patricia "Trish" Neuenschwander—a beloved member of the ICAN family whose courage, compassion, and tireless dedication to protecting children touched countless lives.
We are grateful to have known her, to have worked beside her, and to carry forward the mission she cared so deeply about.
Read our tribute and learn more about her remarkable life below.❤️
bit.ly/Remembering-Trish
With love,
@delbigtree
@AaronSiriSG
@CatharineLayton
@patrick_layton
@lindeymagee
@HighWireTalk
Patrick Layton retweeted
BREAKING: U.S. head of AI safety resigns just three months after being appointed.
Patrick Layton retweeted
A few patterns we frequently use with Fable 5:
Use Fable 5 as an "advisor."
An executor (Sonnet 5) calls Fable 5 for guidance.
Most tokens are billed at the lower executor rate.
Patrick Layton retweeted
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Patrick Layton retweeted
Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.
Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.
Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.
It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.
Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.
That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.
Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.
The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.
Patrick Layton retweeted
Today, I released a report showing that Biden health officials knew that safety signals for COVID-19 injection injuries were being hidden by their VAERS analytic algorithm.
They were shown an updated algorithm that signaled serious adverse events, but they refused to use it. Their cover-up jeopardized the health of millions of Americans.
Read my interim report and see the records here:
