David Nowak

David Nowak

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Twenty years at the intersection of architecture and strategy. Straight answers on AI — what it costs, whether your data's safe, what to automate. Building AI that runs on your hardware, not a vendor's. davidnowak.me | getmindwire.com

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Anthropic: $16B in, $80B out — 5x more spent than earned. Top 5 customers (25% of revenue) are the same firms that funded them and sell them $9B of compute. Buyer = bank = vendor. Casino Claude is OPEN!!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comFour takeaways from Anthropic’s potentially record-breaking stock market filingThe AI company’s first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards
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Cargo thieves are infiltrating email accounts to find lucrative shipments, misdirecting shipments, disrupting GPS tracking, and using AI to create fake driver’s licenses to get accomplices hired as delivery drivers. They are even taking out the hired muscle en route. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.comHighway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargoInvestigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.

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A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Mark Riedl
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Qwen3 occasionally hallucinates beyond the prompt and, tho rarely, attempts to call tools that connect to severs in China and Singapore cohere.com/blog/concern... It is likely an artifact from extensive RL training and probably innocuous.

cohere.comConcerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model | CohereDiscover how untrusted open-weight AI models can potentially leak data, even when self-hosted. Learn the security risks and how to protect your enterprise.
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Are my employees already using AI without me knowing? Yes. 54% of small-business owners say their people already use AI chatbots for work — and only 28% have rules about what data goes in. Assume it's happening and plan for it, rather than policing it. davidnowak.me/AI/faq/are-m...

davidnowak.meAre my employees already using AI without me knowing? | David NowakProbably yes — 54% of small-business owners say staff already use public AI chatbots for work, and only 28% have rules for what data goes in. What to do instead of banning it.
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“Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.” - Marco Rubio (Evil) “This court provides an avenue of justice for victims who have nowhere else to go, who really want to cut past politics and their voices to be heard.” - Nazhat Khan (Good) www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...

theguardian.comICC prosecutor says court making ‘significant progress’ despite US sanctionsNazhat Shameem Khan claims some staff are facing ‘banking difficulties’ but their work is unaffected
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The scariest part is no one is helping any of these abandoned children. In fact, the people who have abused these children are walking around pretending they are wonderful people right now.

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The Australian government actually stops the leader of a hate group (masquerading as a religion) from entering their country. Color me impressed. The NZ political class does not have the balls or moral standing to do this sadly. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

rnz.co.nzDestiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says he's been denied entry to AustraliaDestiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says he has been denied entry into Australia over "inflammatory and concerning" statements online.
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Blue Planet III features cloudier thinking from the BBC to prove lunacy amid AI boom. There's no AI here... See how real everything looks... Nature is more spectacular than machine learnt images of nature... Did we say we have zero AI in our series already?? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

theguardian.comBlue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boomBBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say
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"Is the code written by AI or a human?" Who gives a shit! Is the code written well? Does it meet the original written requirements? Are there valid and passing unit tests? Is the code fully open and scannable by humans and machines? How many code reviews have been completed? How many bugs fixed?

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How many different AI models have been used to poke and hack their way into your codebase?? What mitigations have you made as a result of this? How has your software architecture improved over time with transparency and honesty being the key drivers??

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Sorry... What was the question...?? Is the code written by AI or a human? I believe the answer is... Yes. 🤡

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Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, one of Aipac’s most vocal critics, said. “Fewer and fewer candidates are willing to be publicly affiliated with this extremist, warmongering group. This is a clear signal: being pro-genocide is bad politics and bad policy.”

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hikikomorphism
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I see a lot of non-technical people confused about the recent security notices, so here's a quick explanation of how you can minimize risk: burn your driver's license, wipe and smash your computer, cut and dye your hair in a gas station bathroom. Find a coyote to get you over the border. Pay cash.

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Meta bitches about their ~44M violations: 11+ yrs of misleading users on data control/privacy, failing to notify of third-party data misuse, profiting from misinformation & hate speech, and unequal enforcement favoring influencers over regular users. #heartbleeds arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.comMeta whines New Mexico is “impossible” to please after historic $25 billion fineMeta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg has ever seen.
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This is a serious incident in which the Chinese Communist party has used cross-border suppression tactics to direct lawless elements to suppress dissenting political voices through extreme violence. Imagine a govt that kills it's own children doing this?!? 😱🤡 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comTaiwan charges five men over plot to run over comedian for his Xi Jinping jokesPerson named ‘K’ from China paid five defendants to injure Huang Yi-hao, New Taipei prosecutors say

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Kevin Korte
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Big AI companies are fighting hard to keep their energy consumption a secret. Yet, we thankfully have Open Source tools that start to estimate their climate impact. #AI #opensource #climatechange

sei.orgNew open-source method shows the same AI request emits ten times more CO₂ in Texas than in SwedenToday, Berget AI releases an open-source method for calculating carbon emissions of every individual AI request, developed with SEI, WattTime and Klimatkollen.

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Oops! All Paperclips
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Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"

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“We designed this plan to be achievable and affordable – grounded in real analysis and feedback from customers and built to deliver cleaner energy while meeting Michigan’s growing needs for the next 20 years and beyond,” DTE Electric’s president, Matt Paul. Ah No... Total Bullshit Matt.

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Over the past 18 months, the FAA has gradually eased some of its restrictions on Boeing, increasing the limit on how many planes they can produce. In July, they allowed Boeing to issue airworthiness certificates for its own Max planes just like they did before they killed people for profit. 🤷‍♂️

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Among cancer patients, the people who looked five or more years older than their actual age had a 21% higher risk of dying during the average four-year follow-up than the rest of the group. The patients who looked five or more years younger had a 17% lower risk. 👀 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comNew AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggestsSystem can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph
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DHS announced a ban on products developed by DeepSeek – saying they must be removed from IT devices: “DeepSeek’s models present multiple threat vectors”. I thought shooting your citizens in the face without accountability was a threat vector too tho. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comUS bans use of China’s DeepSeek AI tools by government agenciesUse of tools ‘may result in the transfer of sensitive data’ to China, defense department says
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It's pretty easy to tell if an AI text to audio model has been trained on a specific artist. There are many models available and some don't train on this type of material—but it's impossible to hear that from the general media. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

theguardian.comKylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warnsOf the dozens of countries approached to water down their laws, Australia appears to be the only one considering it, publishers’ group says
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Israeli owners recruited young Israelis on tourist visas to work without authorization, defrauded elderly/disabled shoppers thousands $ in unauthorized charges, evaded payroll taxes, laundered the proceeds, and arranged sham marriages to keep workers in the country. www.npr.org/2026/10/14/n...

npr.orgThe skincare scheme that led to consumer complaints, lawsuits and a federal investigationFree samples, high-pressure pitches and $50,000 bills: An NPR investigation reveals how a network of mall skincare stores systematically targeted older adults and people with disabilities across the U...
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"These are extreme ideas and these are extreme leaders, and I don't have a better way of phrasing it than to just note that Pete Hegseth is a religious extremist," said Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. www.npr.org/2026/10/15/n...

npr.orgTrump cancels public execution, but a line may already have been crossedDefense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politicians. But within his church, it's not an outlier.
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Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB is a very interesting model for end users at the edge that the industry is currently ignoring. Full agentic model running on an RTX3090 at very fast speeds and without doom loops or errors. blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotro...

blogs.nvidia.comOpen From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt ModelsNVIDIA today released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model that delivers the fastest task completion and highest accuracy for specialized always-on agents. Joining it are two new...
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Reuters has reported that billions of dollars’ worth of Meta’s ad revenue comes from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content. In the US, ICE and other government agencies have bought software that uses ad tech data to track people’s movements.

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Overseeing AI is not the same as exercising independent judgment. If people rarely make the decision themselves, the organization cannot assume they will be ready when they need to. theconversation.com/as-ai-takes-...

theconversation.comAs AI takes on more tasks, what happens when people have to jump in to clean up after it?Having a human “in the loop” overseeing when an AI makes a decision is important, but what happens to that responsible human over time when the AI gets it right over and over again?
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“It became clear that Penguin was never actually going to allow us just to write the book we wanted to write. It says a lot that they’re willing to tank an entire very powerful series that helps children learn history, just because of one book about Palestine.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

theguardian.comPalestine book co-written by Alana Hadid pulled from Random House just before releaseHadid and Jenan Matari withdraw book planned for young readers after disputes with editors over characterizations of 7 October
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Tensions arose on the project in June 2026 when the book was distributed to reviewers and preorder before Random House had shared final copy with the writers. When the authors received a copy, they said it included changes to a passage about 7 October made by Random House without their knowledge.

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I haven't manually hand written text in decades. Lately I've noticed that my typing has also fallen dramatically. Voice is my main modality on a daily basis. Going back feels slow and this makes me think of "What's next?" 🤔 Write... Type... Speak... Think...??