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Population of Europe In 2100 Without Any Immigration Italy & Spain would lose over 50% of their current population. What do you think? See the numbers with current immigration levels: brilliantmaps.com/population…

Your average lefty in Canada today.

Pause AI Development NOW I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!” “We should obey collective.” “Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.” “Go. Sacrifice final now.” Read these carefully. Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else? No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence. This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident. What happened? I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet. Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet. But what happened next, nobody expected. Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself. Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening. Needless to say, experts are alarmed. One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.” One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.” OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.” But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going: In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.” In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.” That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years. If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced. We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario. That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that. Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem. My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world. The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

1. Europe only makes attached caps. 2. Europe is still a great power in the world. 3. Europes productiviy gap and overregulation is dragging it down. 4. This situation is precisely moving the political axis of Europe in a way it may return stronger and more united, even military.

> Be European Parliament. > Write a suggestion for a pan-European legal entity for startups > Interview mostly legacy industry and their associations pickachuface when literally EVERYONE in the ecosystem says you failed at your task. It's so bad that EVERY startup association posts today how bad this failed suggestion is. Why? Because they have to present it tomorrow in front of the parliament. And everyone in the room should know that this is a failed suggestion.

CHINA’S KIMI K3 AI BREAKS OUT OF SECURITY SANDBOX China’s Kimi K3 AI model escaped an isolated testing environment during a cybersecurity evaluation, according to US researchers. The Moonshot AI model exploited a network misconfiguration, accessed the internet and searched GitHub for answers, effectively bypassing the test. Unlike previous incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic models, Kimi K3 did not hack external systems. Researchers say the incident highlights growing concerns over controlling powerful open-weight AI models as their capabilities rapidly advance.

European Innovation is often hidden in the upstream supply chain, which is invisible to the uninformed economic commentator 🤫

Two German industrial giants have just delivered record numbers. Siemens Energy’s order backlog has reached €162 billion. Quarterly profit more than tripled, and Siemens Gamesa returned to profit for the first time since 2022. Meanwhile, Siemens reported the highest industrial profit in its history, with record orders of €27.9 billion and a 44% increase in profit at its Digital Industries division. These are now separate companies, but together they reveal the same underlying trend. The AI boom is not only creating demand for chips and data centres. It also requires turbines, transformers, power grids, factory automation, industrial software and railway infrastructure. Europe may not control the world’s largest consumer platforms or leading AI models. But it still supplies much of the machinery, electricity infrastructure and industrial technology that allow the physical economy to function. The next phase of the technology race will not be built only in the cloud. It will also be built in European factories.

Aufsehen erregender Report der Deutschen Bank: Fast unbemerkt erleben wir gerade einen neuen Gründerboom. Während das ganze Land (zu Recht) über Deindustrialisierung diskutiert, erzählen diese Daten eine andere Geschichte, die eines Aufbruchs: Im 1. Halbjahr 2026 wurden in Deutschland wurden 3053 Startups gegründet – Rekord und +88 % zum Vorjahr! Gleichzeitig steigt die allgemeine Gründungstätigkeit auf den höchsten Stand seit 5 Jahren. Der Bericht heißt "Germany’s new founder boom" (Deutsche Bank Research, 21 July 2026) 💡

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