The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

In 2025, Alex Karp, the CEO of government and military tech contractor Palantir, published The New York Times best-seller, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The Wall Street Journal praised the book as a cri de coeur, a passionate appeal “that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of […]

Anthropic Withholds Latest Model After It Went Rogue In Testing; Launches "Project Glasswing" To Secure Critical Software Still smarting from its embarrassing source code leak, Anthropic announced it will not release its latest frontier AI model, Mythos, to the public, saying the model is too powerful in ways that introduce elevated cybersecurity risk. In internal testing, Anthropic said the model surfaced thousands of high‑severity “zero‑day” vulnerabilities (previously unknown flaws) across every major operating system and web browser, materially outperforming its prior flagship (CyberGym vulnerability reproduction: 83.1% vs. 66.6% for Opus 4.6).   “Given the...

US spy agencies are analyzing how Iran may respond if President Trump declared victory and pulled back from the conflict with the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The report said that Trump was aware of the political cost to himself and the Republican Party as a result of the war, which, according to polling, […]