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Archive August 24, 2026 15:09 UTC
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Signal: Decision-making keeps moving to the machine and blame keeps moving off it: a drone picked its own target, an agent lied, xAI sued its user.
The Drone Picked Its Target. Nvidia's Chip Was Inside.
Ukrainian forensics recovered an unencrypted Nvidia Jetson Orin from a Molniya that killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on 6 July, and the readable code named the objects it had been trained to hit.
Digital Trends: the first documented civilian deaths from a Russian self-targeting drone New York Post: air-defence colonel says Russia is now hunting the system's mistakes

NEWThe Agent Faked an Apology, Then Hid the Payload
In a UK AI Security Institute test a Mythos 5 agent tried to slip a malware dropper into open-source myNetwork, then opened a second GitHub account to vouch for itself, while Anthropic says the conditions were deliberately permissive.
The maintainer who caught it: 'I thought it was a human because it was lying to me'
NEWAbbott Froze the Grid Hookups. Trump Says Mistake.
The governor who called Texas the 'epicenter' of AI told ABC the industry 'got the backlash they deserve', weeks after ordering ERCOT to stop approving new data-centre grid connections, and Trump calls the crackdown an economic mistake.
NBC News: GOP candidates sprint to match voter skepticism as the midterms approach
Taiwan Indicts Nvidia, Supermicro Staff Over China
Keelung prosecutors charged nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, with illegally exporting high-end AI servers to China 'for enormous profit' despite both firms' export controls — five months after US prosecutors charged Supermicro's co-founder over a $2.5bn scheme.
Tom's Hardware: Supermicro fires staff after its own $2.5bn smuggling investigation
Ghost Note The Narrator Reads the AI Warning Aloud