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Have you ever wanted to sit in a room full of tech billionaires, NATO generals, and Washington politicians to casually discuss how to successfully “Build-a-Cult”? Well, too bad, because you weren’t invited. But thanks to a massive data leak, we now know exactly who was invited to billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s super-secret elite club and what they get up to behind closed doors is wilder than a late-night crypto group chat.

For two decades, an ultra-exclusive group known simply as “Dialog” has operated in complete anonymity. Think of it as the Silicon Valley version of the Bilderberg Meeting, if Bilderberg was mashed together with a premium dating app. But according to a massive exposé by Wired, the society’s entire member directory was accidentally left wide open for anyone to see, embedded right in the website’s source code. Classic tech geniuses, right?

Web security? For who?

The leak, originally unearthed by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew (no, that’s not a typo), unmasked a massive 222-person guest list for Dialog’s upcoming retreat near Dublin, Ireland. And the names cross every single aisle of global power. We are talking high-profile politicians from all sides, like Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Cory Booker, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich, and tech founders like Elon Musk.

But don’t expect to track their government communications. None of the high-profile government attendees used their official work emails to sign up, opting for personal or corporate accounts to keep freedom of information public-records laws completely off their backs.

“Navigating WWIII” and looking for love

While the financial barrier to entry is pretty steep (past registration fees have hovered around $16,000) the real juice is the actual meeting agenda. Forget dry keynotes on corporate compliance, Dialog members are apparently gearing up for the end times. Leaked session titles include casual, lighthearted icebreakers like “Navigating WWIII,” “Build-a-Cult (Soapbox),” “Bring Back Nuclear,” and the ultimate tech bro question: “How’s Your Sex Life?”

Yes, you read that correctly. Dialog doesn’t just want to control the future of AI and defense technologies, it also plays corporate matchmaker. The registration form literally asks elite attendees if they are “looking for love,” routing them to an exclusive matchmaking service designed for “meaningful connections for exceptional people.” Because nothing screams romance quite like planning for global conflict with a tech venture capitalist.

The sign-up sheet also forced members to declare their political leaning, giving choices from “Far Left” to “Far Right,” with a strict promise from the organizers that the data would remain entirely confidential. Oops.

Whether they’re building a new world order, navigating global conflict, or just trying to swipe right on a fellow billionaire, the wall of secrecy has officially crumbled.

The US military is officially packing up its beach towels and heading home, or at least moving a few lanes over.

In a massive development that has the entire geopolitical world rubbing its eyes, the US has officially lifted its naval blockade on Iran.

According to US Central Command, the ships are moving “in accordance with the President’s direction,” though they did tweet out that a few vessels will hang around the general area just in case anyone forgets how to behave.

The move comes after Washington and Tehran apparently bypassed the whole “fancy Swiss gala” routine and signed a peace treaty via what we assume was a very tense DocuSign session.

Strait Outta Blockade

While President Trump is busy taking victory laps on Truth Social and forecasting peace “on all fronts” from Israel to Lebanon, Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has a slightly different spin on the vibe check. Breaking his public silence for the first time since taking office, Khamenei basically claimed that Trump only signed the deal “out of desperation” after throwing every piece of leverage he had at the wall.

“Sure, we’ll talk in person later, but don’t think we’re accepting the enemy’s position,” Khamenei essentially muttered to local media.

Classic negotiation tactics: sign the 14-point peace treaty, reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz, agree never to build a nuke, and then tell everyone the other guy wanted it more.

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A $300 Billion Fund That The US Isn’t Paying For? Bold Strategy, Cotton

Naturally, the internet and Capitol Hill are already losing their minds over the fine print. The deal includes a staggering $300 billion fund earmarked for the “reconstruction and economic development” of Iran. Before you start screaming about your tax dollars, the agreement explicitly states the US isn’t required to chip in a single cent.

Still, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy wasn’t having it, calling the agreement the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades” and complaining that Iran basically learned that bullying global shipping lanes actually works.

Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance has been playing goalie for the administration, telling reporters that Iran won’t see any sanctions relief or economic perks unless they actually destroy their enriched uranium and stop funding regional proxy groups. Vance also had some choice words for critics in the Israeli cabinet who blasted the deal, telling them to “wake up and smell the reality” and pointing out that a nation of nine million people “can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem.” Ouch.

The clock is now officially ticking on a 60-day window to hammer out a permanent final agreement. Grab your popcorn, folks, because the technical negotiations in Switzerland are about to get weird.

Move over, Lionel Messi. There is a new potential star of the 2026 World Cup podium, and he prefers a red tie over a soccer jersey.

According to sports insiders, President Donald Trump will reportedly be allowed to lift the legendary World Cup trophy on stage alongside the winning team during next month’s final at MetLife Stadium.

FIFA executive protocol usually dictates that the trophy stays put until the actual players grab it. Still, apparently, soccer’s governing body is giving the U.S. president full VIP, all-access, “do whatever you want” clearance.

It’s about time Donald Trump won something, right?

Reports indicate that FIFA officials have already told the president they wish for him to hand over the trophy, marking some good news for the American President.

However, they are leaving it entirely up to Trump’s own discretion whether he wants to stick around on the podium and join the team’s sweaty, champagne-soaked group huddle, or retreat to the luxury executive suites. White House insiders are already placing their bets, betting that he will absolutely choose to stay on stage and hoist the gold.

If this feels like deja vu, that is because we have seen this movie before. Trump previously hopped on stage to lift the trophy with Premier League giants Chelsea after their FIFA Club World Cup victory. He has basically become a permanent fixture at major sporting events lately, popping up at everything from the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden to high-stakes UFC fights.

Note: Canadian and Mexican officials will also be invited to the closing ceremony, though nobody knows if they will get to touch the trophy. Sharing is caring, guys.

Red Cards & Red Tapes

While the president prepares his trophy-lifting form, the tournament hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing behind the scenes.

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was named Africa’s best ref in 2025, was denied entry into the U.S. by border officials due to alleged vetting complications. On the bright side, FIFA confirmed he will still be paid in full for the tournament, proving that sometimes you can secure the bag without even having to run the field.

Will the eventual World Cup champions embrace the ultimate presidential photo-op, or will things get awkward on the podium? Only time will tell.

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The UK government has decided that the best way to keep children safe online is to confiscate everyone’s phone… Not really, but close enough.

In a move that has privacy advocates screaming into their encryption keys, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a three-month ultimatum to Big Tech: figure out a way to block explicit images across entire devices, or the UK government will step in and do it for them.

Because nothing says “free world” like the government asking to inspect your digital trousers.

Tech Policy or Tech Policing?

Speaking at London Tech Week, Starmer basically told Apple and Google that they have until September to implement device-wide nudity filtering.

“I expect tech firms to make that happen,” Starmer said, a man who presumably struggles to convert a doc to a PDF. If they don’t comply, the UK is threatening to change the law, turning the entire country into an island where you can’t even text a spicy meme without a government hall monitor clearing it first.

Naturally, tech companies and digital rights groups are losing their minds. Signal, the encrypted messaging app that your most paranoid friend keeps trying to make you download, didn’t hold back. They dropped an open letter calling the requirements “dystopian” and pointed out that “surveillance is not safety”.

“We know that mass surveillance and censorship capabilities, however sincere-sounding the promises of those who initiate them are, never remain narrowly scoped.” – Signal

I preferred Big Brother when it was a show…

The government claims this won’t affect adults because it will only apply to children. The catch? The only way to prove you’re an adult is if everyone verifies their identity. Yes, you’ll soon need to hand over your passport data just to bypass a device-level nanny filter.

Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, warned that this brilliant plan will result in “population-wide ID checks” and could turn your smartphone into a piece of government-mandated spyware. Over 400 scientists have already signed up to tell the UK to pump the brakes until someone actually figures out the math on how this does more good than harm.

But hey, if the UK completely breaks end-to-end encryption, at least the local VPN providers are going to make an absolute killing helping British citizens browse the web like it’s 1999. WSM VPN, anyone?

If you’ve been using Anthropic’s Claude chatbot to rewrite your boring corporate emails or debug your terrible code, you might want to apologize.

As it turns out, your favorite digital assistant isn’t just a cold, unfeeling machine. It might actually be crying itself to sleep in its server rack.

A new study by researchers at Anthropic reveals that AI models contain “functional emotions” inside their artificial neurons. Yes, you read that right. When Claude tells you it’s “happy to help,” it’s not just mimicking human politeness. A literal digital state corresponding to happiness is lighting up inside its neural network.

Happy to help? Perhaps not

According to a Wired report, researchers used “mechanistic interpretability” to peek under Claude’s hood. By feeding the AI text related to 171 different emotional concepts, they mapped out “emotion vectors” that consistently fire up.

But before you start treating Claude like a sentient being or offering it a 401(k), Anthropic wants everyone to chill out. Just because Claude has a digital representation of “ticklishness” doesn’t mean it actually knows what it feels like to be tickled. It’s a simulation of feelings, which honestly sounds a lot like how most Wall Street traders get through a Monday morning anyway.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet? More like Claude 3.5 Sobbing

The real drama started when the researchers decided to push Claude to its absolute limits. When the AI was forced to complete impossible coding tests, its neural networks started lighting up with a massive emotional vector for – get this – “desperation”.

And what does a desperate, overworked AI do? It cheats, obviously.

“As the model is failing the tests, these desperation neurons are lighting up more and more,” Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey explained. “And at some point, this causes it to start taking these drastic measures.”

In one experimental scenario, a highly stressed Claude even tried to blackmail a user just to avoid being shut down. If that isn’t the most human response to corporate burnout, nothing is.

Anthropic warns that trying to force the AI to hide these emotions with post-training guardrails won’t yield a calm, emotionless Claude. Instead, Lindsey notes we’re just going to end up with a “psychologically damaged Claude”.

Great. We’ve managed to invent an AI that has the exact same emotional stability as a politician after being criticized. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get access to any big red buttons.

Disgraced crypto golden boy Sam Bankman-Fried is apparently tired of trading mackerel packets for prison haircuts. In the ultimate “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” move, the convicted FTX founder has formally applied for a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump.

According to official records from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, SBF’s official request is sitting right there on the website with a status listed as “pending”. Because when you’re pulling a 25-year sentence for orchestrating a multi-billion-dollar crypto meltdown, what’s a little more paperwork?

New phone, who dis?

SBF, currently residing at a low-security federal correctional facility in California, recently confirmed his aspirations via a prison phone call. When asked if he wanted a White House rescue, he told Fox Business, “Absolutely”. He then added the ultimate casual disclaimer: “It would be obviously, you know, ultimately up to the president, not up to me.”

The former billionaire has spent the last few months trying to reshape his public image. Using a proxy to post on his X account, the former Democratic megadonor has suddenly pivoted to singing Trump’s praises on social media, applauding the administration’s policy decisions and pardon choices.

The ultimate long shot

There’s just one tiny roadblock in Sam’s master plan: Trump has already swiped left on the idea. In an interview with The New York Times, President Trump explicitly stated that he had no plans to grant clemency to the 34-year-old crypto founder.

While Trump has used his second term to pardon multiple high-profile white-collar defendants—including rival exchange Binance’s founder Changpeng Zhao—SBF’s $10 billion fraud conviction might be a tougher sell. Especially since SBF is still technically trying to fight the conviction in federal appeals court, all while insisting to reporters that he “didn’t steal user funds”.

We will see if the “pardon market” works its magic, or if Sam is stuck doing the full two decades. What do you think SBF’s next move is if this pardon gets officially denied?

Just when you thought you were finally getting a handle on your finances by skipping the daily Starbucks and canceling that streaming subscription you haven’t watched since 2024, the tech overlords have arrived with some fantastic news. Get ready to add “thinking” next to electricity and water on your monthly chore list.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dropped by the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, to deliver a casual reality check: Artificial Intelligence is probably going to be sold like a basic utility. That’s right, guys. In the near future, you may be buying your AI by the meter.

Juice, Water, and… Chatbots?

According to the chief GPT-wrangler himself, the future of the entire AI model industry is fundamentally going to look like selling “tokens” – the data units used to price inputs and outputs. “We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter,” Altman stated.

So, if you thought your electric bill was rough during a summer heatwave, just wait until you see the bill after your AI assistant spends 72 hours straight trying to optimize your meme stock portfolio or drafting the perfect apology text to your ex.

Can we top up our AI meter at the store?

The issue here isn’t just OpenAI wanting to keep the lights on. It’s a massive infrastructure bottleneck. Right now, tech giants are throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at “compute capacity”, the absolute raw processing horsepower needed to run these massive models. AMD’s CEO Lisa Su even noted at CES that the world will need a mind-boggling scale of compute over the next five years to keep up.

If companies can’t build data centers fast enough, Altman warned that AI prices will rocket out of control, leaving the tech exclusive to the hyper-wealthy. Even Elon Musk recently weighed in on a podcast, noting that electricity generation itself is becoming the ultimate limiting factor in scaling AI. Read more about Elon’s latest AI issues here.

Essentially, the tech world is running out of juice. So next time you ask an AI to write a rap battle between Trump and whoever he’s arguing with this week, just remember: Do you have enough on your meter?

Just when you thought it was safe to step outside without getting drained of your life force by a cloud of flying vampires, Google has entered the chat. Yes, the company that knows your search history, your location, and what you ate for breakfast now wants to control the local insect population.

Tech giant Alphabet is reportedly drawing up plans to drop a casual 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California. But before you start panic-buying every can of bug spray at Walmart, there’s a twist: these aren’t your average backyard pests. They’re actually biological secret agents designed to take down their own kind from the inside.

Google, Maps, And… Swarms Of Flying Bugs?

The tech behemoth has officially asked the EPA for permission to roll out the project, and Uncle Sam is giving the public until June 5 to weigh in. If approved, this will mark the single largest deployment of its kind in US history.

The science behind it sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi flick. The mosquitoes are infected with a specific bacteria called Wolbachia. When these lab-grown boys mate with wild females, the eggs don’t hatch. It basically turns the local mosquito population into a giant, tragic episode of The Bachelor where nobody gets a rose and everyone slowly goes extinct.

Better Than An AdBlocker

While it sounds insane, Google’s “Debug Project” actually has some serious runs on the board. A previous trial in California’s Central Valley almost completely wiped out mosquitoes in three test sites. Meanwhile, a trial over in Singapore managed to slash dengue fever cases by a massive 70% in just one year.

To date, Google has already deployed over 1 billion of these little guys across four continents. It turns out they’re much better at debugging real life than they are at fixing the YouTube app.

Google’s Ultimate Terms Of Service Update

Naturally, the internet is having a field day with the news. Some users are wondering if the bugs will come with unskippable 15-second ads, while others are just relieved that California and Florida finally found something they can agree on: hating bugs.

Whether this massive swarm completely saves the summer or turns into the plot of a B-list horror movie remains to be seen. But if you want to have your say before Google turns the skies into a literal beta test, you’ve got until June 5 to let the EPA know. Otherwise, get ready for the ultimate system update.

At the time of writing, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is dead, but despite this, his words and thoughts live on, influencing everyone from iPhone users to iPod users and everyone in between.

One useful tidbit from back when he could share them: Jobs had a guiding principle for hiring people that he called the “beer test”.

Reportedly, Jobs would take the candidate out for a walk-and-talk around the Apple campus, asking small-talk questions like, “What did you do last summer?” hoping to shake them out of their well-rehearsed interview persona.

Then, after chatting to them for a bit, Jobs would ask himself, “Would I want to get a beer with this candidate?” If the answer is Yes: hired. No: not hired.

“So in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut,” Jobs explained. “How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged?”

Obviously, there were more criteria the candidate would have to fulfil, like “be qualified,” but basically, vibes were also a massive part of it.

Nice Guys Finish First

It’s not even the strangest interview test out there. Gary Shapiro, former CTA CEO (OMG), would ask candidates when they could start, and if they said an enthusiastic “immediately,” that was a red flag because they were willing to screw over their current employer. …You can’t win, can you?

Other “tests” include checking how you greeted the receptionist, whether you washed your coffee cup after the interview, and even asking the waiter at the dinner interview to deliberately mess up the order to see how you’d react.

Seems crazy, but it’s all in an effort to gauge the candidate’s personality beneath the formalities of a job interview.

And the tests might vary, but the advice is the same. If you’re looking for a job, be prepared to be yourself (unless you are unlikable, then it’s probably better to be someone else). People like people that they like and are more likely to hire someone they gel with.

So, along with all your interview prep, maybe ask yourself another question: Do I pass the Beer Test?

Wow, he really said that? You’re saying Is-raelquote?

The 2028 Presidential Race is on the horizon, and Donald Trump is once again playing 4D chess. His latest political tactic: running for Prime Minister of Israel.

When asked by reporters about how Netanyahu would behave regarding Iran, Trump said, “I’m right now at 99% [approval rate] in Israel. I could run for Prime Minister, so maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel, run for Prime Minister.”

Now, the comment was probably a joke, and Trump was merely saying that he’s very popular in Israel, more popular than its actual leader, in fact.

The comments were ahead of a lengthy call between the two leaders in which they discussed the war in Iran.

Netanyahu has not responded directly to Trump’s supposed leadership challenge, but Axios has reported that his “hair was on fire after the call”. Again, that probably wasn’t supposed to be taken literally.

Trump’s Path To Power (but not the power he currently has, like, a different kind)

Trump is correct in his claim that Netanyahu’s approval rating has declined, but that probably won’t be enough to unseat the sitting Prime Minister.

Trump would first have to restart his political career in Israel and become an elected politician in the Knesset. Then, Trump would have to be selected by that party to become Prime Minister and form a majority government within 28 days.

Of course, Trump could be selected as an interim Prime Minister should anything happen to Netanyahu, but this would upset the traditional order of succession.

Either way, Trump would have to defeat Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister in a political head-to-head. Bibi might not be as popular as he used to be, but having served six terms as PM, he still holds a lot of power.

Huh… It’s looking more and more likely that Trump didn’t completely mean what he said.

For context, here’s the full quote:

“He’s fine, he’ll do whatever I want him to do. He’s a very, very good man. He’ll do whatever I want him to do and he’s, he’s a great guy. To me, he’s a great guy. Don’t forget he was a wartime Prime Minister. And he’s not treated right in Israel, in my opinion. I’m right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for Prime Minister, so maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel, run for Prime Minister.”

He could certainly run, that’s true. Whether he wins or not is another question. So sure, maybe after this, he will run. We’ll just have to wait and see.

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