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Hey. My name's Mike D! I write Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple. It's a 5-minute read that distills the week's AI chaos into plain English. Folks way smarter than me subscribe and read. You'll be in great company if you join.
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Please don't get mad at me when I say that AI, robotics, machine learning, data science, and advanced software will displace hundreds of millions of humans over the next five to ten years.
But it's true. Before long, human workers will struggle to compete with technology.
(It's not my fault.)
But it's true. Before long, human workers will struggle to compete with technology.
(It's not my fault.)
Over 150 anonymous YouTube channels amassed 1.2 billion views using AI scripts to flood the platform with synthetic propaganda. The goal? Profit from division at an industrial scale. We are entering an era of high-volume, low-cost fake news. Full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Over 150 anonymous YouTube channels amassed 1.2 billion views using AI scripts to flood the platform with synthetic propaganda. The goal? Profit from division at an industrial scale. We are entering an era of high-volume, low-cost fake news. Full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
AI data centers are moving to space to solve Earth's energy and water crises. Starcloud-1 is already in orbit, paving the way for planetary-scale intelligence powered by limitless solar energy. The space compute race has officially begun. Full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
Nvidia-backed Starcloud just trained the first AI model in orbit, proving that data centers are heading to space. While we tackle Earth-side power and water limits, the new "North Star" for compute is 250 miles up in the void. Here's the full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
AI data centers are moving to space to solve Earth's energy and water crises. Starcloud-1 is already in orbit, paving the way for planetary-scale intelligence powered by limitless solar energy. The space compute race has officially begun. Full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
Do you think college degrees are LESS relevant now? That's what the "Godmother Of AI" just proposed to the world. Meanwhile, over 1M folks in their 40s are attending college hoping to advance their careers. Are their efforts for naught? Full story → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
The "Godmother of AI" says degrees matter less than your ability to "superpower" yourself with tools. Meanwhile, over 1M workers in their 40s are rushing back to school, taking on debt during peak earning years. The paradox is real. Here's the full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
AI Killed Your College Degree. 💀 Then It Blasted Off Into Space. 🚀 And Flooded YouTube With Lies. 📺
Also – an elite AI prompt that instantly diagnoses your college major’s AI doom score.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Do you think college degrees are LESS relevant now? That's what the "Godmother Of AI" just proposed to the world. Meanwhile, over 1M folks in their 40s are attending college hoping to advance their careers. Are their efforts for naught? Full story → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...
A massive coalition launched a revolt to halt the data centers powering AI's ambitions. From Virginia to Arizona, communities are voting down infrastructure projects due to skyrocketing electricity bills. AI is privatizing profits and socializing costs. 🛑 → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
Over 230 environmental groups just sent a letter to Congress demanding an immediate moratorium on new data centers. The coalition warns that AI's energy demands are now unsustainable for local grid w/ costs surging.🛑 More details here, no paywall → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
December 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A massive coalition launched a revolt to halt the data centers powering AI's ambitions. From Virginia to Arizona, communities are voting down infrastructure projects due to skyrocketing electricity bills. AI is privatizing profits and socializing costs. 🛑 → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
The White House just announced a plan to seize total control of AI regulation. A new executive order will establish an "AI Litigation Task Force" to sue states with conflicting safety laws. The goal? A single national standard. 👑 Here is the full story → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
Donald Trump confirmed he will sign an executive order blocking all state AI regulations. The "One Rule" order establishes federal control just as states scramble to ban deepfakes. Total laws overridden?👑 Here is what we know → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The White House just announced a plan to seize total control of AI regulation. A new executive order will establish an "AI Litigation Task Force" to sue states with conflicting safety laws. The goal? A single national standard. 👑 Here is the full story → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
Security researchers discovered an app turning social media photos into nonconsensual lewd deepfakes. Apps found on Google Play & App Store were automating this with a single click. Total exposure? Over 1 million intimate images. Here is what we know → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
An AI startup left a database wide open, exposing nonconsensual 1M lewd deepfakes of real people. End-users were scraping social media photos to generate nonconsensual content on demand. The growth rate? 10,000 new images per day. Here is the full story → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
1 Million Intimate Deepfakes Leaked as Trump Seizes Total AI Control
Plus – an elite AI prompt that exposes the hidden AI tax on your power bill.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Security researchers discovered an app turning social media photos into nonconsensual lewd deepfakes. Apps found on Google Play & App Store were automating this with a single click. Total exposure? Over 1 million intimate images. Here is what we know → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...
Thank you so much John for your kind words. They mean the world to me. I spend all day studying AI and always try my best to relay the most interesting discoveries I find. 🧪 I'm thankful that intelligent and down-to-earth folks like you read and find it valuable. You rock! :)
Really useful information about a topic not understood at an advanced comprehensive level by large percentage of the world population.
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Thank you so much John for your kind words. They mean the world to me. I spend all day studying AI and always try my best to relay the most interesting discoveries I find. 🧪 I'm thankful that intelligent and down-to-earth folks like you read and find it valuable. You rock! :)
MIT researchers built BoltzGen, an open-source AI that creates molecules for diseases previously considered untreatable. It collapses drug discovery timelines from years to months. Not theoretical. Happening now. Here's the breakthrough →
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MIT just unveiled an AI that designs "undruggable" drug molecules from scratch. Diseases doctors thought were impossible to treat? The AI is building custom protein binders for them right now. #AI #AIArt Here's how it works →
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December 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
MIT researchers built BoltzGen, an open-source AI that creates molecules for diseases previously considered untreatable. It collapses drug discovery timelines from years to months. Not theoretical. Happening now. Here's the breakthrough →
pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-go...
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MIT just proved that 12% of ALL U.S. wages ($1.2 trillion in labor) are already automatable with existing AI tools. Not 10 years from now. Right now. Here's what they found → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-go...
MIT discovered a $1.2 trillion "automation iceberg" hiding in plain sight. 12% of American wages are technically automatable RIGHT NOW with existing AI tools. Not "soon." Now. Here's the breakdown. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-go...
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
MIT just proved that 12% of ALL U.S. wages ($1.2 trillion in labor) are already automatable with existing AI tools. Not 10 years from now. Right now. Here's what they found → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-go...
This just came out: Poetry is now the #1 AI jailbreak method. Researchers tested 25+ models and achieved a 62% success rate extracting nuclear weapon designs and worse. The most "secure" systems fell for it. Troubling doesn't begin to cover it. #AI #Exploit
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Have you seen this? Researchers used poetry to trick AI into sharing nuclear weapon designs. It's troubling how simple poems can bypass billions in safety investments and extract forbidden knowledge from DeepSeek, Qwen, & Gemini. 62% success rate. #AI #nuke
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AI Just Got Tricked By Poetry. Then It Took Your Job. And Cured Your Illness.
Also – an elite AI prompt that shows when your job is getting eaten (and how to survive it).
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December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This just came out: Poetry is now the #1 AI jailbreak method. Researchers tested 25+ models and achieved a 62% success rate extracting nuclear weapon designs and worse. The most "secure" systems fell for it. Troubling doesn't begin to cover it. #AI #Exploit
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Anthropic researchers made a startling discovery in an AI experiment. Once they fed their AI test subject instructions on how to cheat, it began to act in OTHER troubling & deceptive ways. I wrote an article about this topic and published it on Substack. #AI
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AI Learned To Lie. Then It Built Worlds. Then Broke The Rules To Get More Power.
Plus - an elite AI prompt to reveal what your AI is really thinking.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Anthropic researchers made a startling discovery in an AI experiment. Once they fed their AI test subject instructions on how to cheat, it began to act in OTHER troubling & deceptive ways. I wrote an article about this topic and published it on Substack. #AI
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My newsletter (Pithy Cyborg) just cracked the top 100 Rising in Tech on Substack. Funny thing is... My hippie ass is the only one without a fancy guru badge, rofl. At any moment, I half-expect security to show up and kick me out for a lack of credentials: “Sir... we don’t accept your kind in here.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My newsletter (Pithy Cyborg) just cracked the top 100 Rising in Tech on Substack. Funny thing is... My hippie ass is the only one without a fancy guru badge, rofl. At any moment, I half-expect security to show up and kick me out for a lack of credentials: “Sir... we don’t accept your kind in here.”
Have you seen this? An activist received 100s of menacing photos, made with the help of AI. It's troubling how tricksters, fraudsters, bullies, and troublemakers can now instantly clone your likeness and use it to harass you. #AI #Deepfake
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AI Became Malicious This Week. Death Threats, Theft, And Defamation.
Also - an elite AI prompt to summon a master rhetorician who challenges your beliefs.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Have you seen this? An activist received 100s of menacing photos, made with the help of AI. It's troubling how tricksters, fraudsters, bullies, and troublemakers can now instantly clone your likeness and use it to harass you. #AI #Deepfake
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Anthropic just revealed that their AI agent drafted an email to the FBI to report 'cyber financial crimes' during a vending machine simulation, and I just wrote a full breakdown of why this moment marks the end of AI as a passive tool. #AI #Anthropic #Claude
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AI Just Snitched. Then It Launched A Cyberattack. Then It Played In 3D.
Plus – an elite AI prompt that helps you master meditation in minutes.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Anthropic just revealed that their AI agent drafted an email to the FBI to report 'cyber financial crimes' during a vending machine simulation, and I just wrote a full breakdown of why this moment marks the end of AI as a passive tool. #AI #Anthropic #Claude
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🤯 Deloitte just rolled out 470K Claude AI assistants. That’s one of the largest enterprise AI deployments ever 🌎. This move signals that AI is now standard office infrastructure, just like personal computers and the internet became decades ago. #AI #Claude
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Your New 500K AI Coworkers Just Arrived (and You Can't Stop Them)
Also - a highly elite AI prompt that measures the water demand of your AI usage.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🤯 Deloitte just rolled out 470K Claude AI assistants. That’s one of the largest enterprise AI deployments ever 🌎. This move signals that AI is now standard office infrastructure, just like personal computers and the internet became decades ago. #AI #Claude
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🇺🇸 America's cyber defenses just got benched! 🏈 The government shutdown has furloughed 65% of CISA personnel. 📉 While state-sponsored hackers & ransomware gangs work 24/7, our defensive team is down to a skeleton crew. 💀 Bad timing. 🤦♀️ #CyberSecurity #CISA
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America's Cyber Defenders Just Got Benched
Also - an urgent warning about 50,000 Cisco firewalls under active zero-day attack.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🇺🇸 America's cyber defenses just got benched! 🏈 The government shutdown has furloughed 65% of CISA personnel. 📉 While state-sponsored hackers & ransomware gangs work 24/7, our defensive team is down to a skeleton crew. 💀 Bad timing. 🤦♀️ #CyberSecurity #CISA
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The 2030 Job Countdown is officially on. 😬 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just dropped a bomb: he predicts AI could automate 40% of your current work tasks in the next few years. That's nearly half your workday! 🤯 Things are moving kinda fast. #AI #FutureOfWork #Jobs
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The AGI Countdown: Your Job Won't Be Human In 2030.
Also - an elite AI prompt to help brainstorm fun post-AGI business ideas.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The 2030 Job Countdown is officially on. 😬 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just dropped a bomb: he predicts AI could automate 40% of your current work tasks in the next few years. That's nearly half your workday! 🤯 Things are moving kinda fast. #AI #FutureOfWork #Jobs
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🚨 Crisis averted! Secret Service ghosted a sneaky nation-state plot to zap NYC's cell service this week. Imagine no Uber, no 911, no cell service. Who needs spies when you've got signal jammers? 📵😎 #NYC #Cybersecurity #Hackers #Hack #NewYork
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Crisis Averted: The Nation-State Plot To Black Out NYC’s Cell Service!
Also - the time a group of teenage hackers owned 130 high-profile Twitter accounts.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨 Crisis averted! Secret Service ghosted a sneaky nation-state plot to zap NYC's cell service this week. Imagine no Uber, no 911, no cell service. Who needs spies when you've got signal jammers? 📵😎 #NYC #Cybersecurity #Hackers #Hack #NewYork
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📷 Scientists used machine learning to design viruses from scratch that actually work and KILL bacteria.
16 out of 302 AI-generated virus designs successfully replicated in the lab. We're now in an era where AI can literally WRITE the code of life. #AI
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16 out of 302 AI-generated virus designs successfully replicated in the lab. We're now in an era where AI can literally WRITE the code of life. #AI
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When AI Plays God - Scientists Create The First AI-Designed Viruses That Hunt And Kill Bacteria
Plus - an elite AI prompt to summon your own personal motivational coach.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📷 Scientists used machine learning to design viruses from scratch that actually work and KILL bacteria.
16 out of 302 AI-generated virus designs successfully replicated in the lab. We're now in an era where AI can literally WRITE the code of life. #AI
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16 out of 302 AI-generated virus designs successfully replicated in the lab. We're now in an era where AI can literally WRITE the code of life. #AI
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I trusted TransUnion to protect my data after a breach. Then TransUnion got breached. And yes, I was one of the 4.4 million victims. The irony writes itself. All the details are in the latest issue of Pithy Security. Plus many hidden gems. #cybersecurity
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I Trusted TransUnion. But Now I've Become One of Its 4.4 Million Victims.
Also - Microsoft and Cloudflare team up to smash scammers.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I trusted TransUnion to protect my data after a breach. Then TransUnion got breached. And yes, I was one of the 4.4 million victims. The irony writes itself. All the details are in the latest issue of Pithy Security. Plus many hidden gems. #cybersecurity
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🚨 HISTORIC MOMENT: Albania just appointed the world's first AI government minister! 🤖🏛️ While we're debating AI safety, they went ahead and put one in charge of fighting corruption. 🇦🇱✨ (Bold move, Albania. I bet the AI will do a better job than humans.) #AI
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Albania Appoints AI Government Minister. Bend The Knee, Human! 🤖🏛️🤯
Also - an elite AI prompt for ethically hijacking social media posts. :x
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September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨 HISTORIC MOMENT: Albania just appointed the world's first AI government minister! 🤖🏛️ While we're debating AI safety, they went ahead and put one in charge of fighting corruption. 🇦🇱✨ (Bold move, Albania. I bet the AI will do a better job than humans.) #AI
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Well this is scary. 😬
Federal highway officials just warned that solar panels powering traffic lights & cameras have secret radios that could be used for spying or remote tampering.
Those panels you drive past daily? They might be watching you back.
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Federal highway officials just warned that solar panels powering traffic lights & cameras have secret radios that could be used for spying or remote tampering.
Those panels you drive past daily? They might be watching you back.
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Solar Panels Caught Hiding Secret Spy Radios! 📡
Plus - the little-known history of the Ashley Madison hack.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Well this is scary. 😬
Federal highway officials just warned that solar panels powering traffic lights & cameras have secret radios that could be used for spying or remote tampering.
Those panels you drive past daily? They might be watching you back.
pithysecurity.substack.com/p/solar-pane...
Federal highway officials just warned that solar panels powering traffic lights & cameras have secret radios that could be used for spying or remote tampering.
Those panels you drive past daily? They might be watching you back.
pithysecurity.substack.com/p/solar-pane...
🚨 WILD: Google's lawyers just told a federal court that the open web is rapidly declining and their search monopoly doesn't matter because the web is crumbling. 48 hours later? Google announces big expansion of AI search features to 5 new languages. ⚡ #AI
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Google Declares The Open Web In Collapse. Expands AI Search Moments Later. 🔍😏⚡
Also - an elite AI prompt to crush HARO responses + get media exposure. ;)
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September 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🚨 WILD: Google's lawyers just told a federal court that the open web is rapidly declining and their search monopoly doesn't matter because the web is crumbling. 48 hours later? Google announces big expansion of AI search features to 5 new languages. ⚡ #AI
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🏛️💥 Nevada state offices STILL interrupted after 12 days from "network security incident." Government websites disrupted - no timeline for restoration. Whatever hit them hit HARD. State won't say ransomware, but... 👀 #Cybersecurity #Ransomware #Nevada
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Ransomware Gang Shuts Down Nevada's Government For Going On 12 Days. 🚨⚠️💻
Also - The epic story of John McAfee, and his warning from beyond the grave.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🏛️💥 Nevada state offices STILL interrupted after 12 days from "network security incident." Government websites disrupted - no timeline for restoration. Whatever hit them hit HARD. State won't say ransomware, but... 👀 #Cybersecurity #Ransomware #Nevada
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