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Former Joe Biden official alleged Xavier Becerra called migrant kids 'little Juanitos and Juanitas,' sparking concern inside his California governor campaign.

"There are people out there making assumptions, and they don't know who the hell I am," said Cohn.

The pre-series machinations for Red Sox-Yankees revolved around who was left out and who was the right fit. 

Mystery Explosions: Syria's Recovering Gas Network Keeps Getting Sabotaged

Syria has reported at least two acts of major sabotage against its gas infrastructure in six weeks, and it raises questions over who or what group is behind it, and what this means for future energy transit projects.

Monday evening saw a fire rage out of control for many hours at a gas pipeline between al-Shola and Deir Ezzor following a mystery explosion. 

Syrian media: illustrative file image.

Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), which oversees the site, called it an act of sabotage which abruptly halted gas flows from the Jbeissa gas plant to power generation stations, according to details from state-run SANA.

The New Arab writes that "In January, the SPC began pumping raw gas from the Jbeissa fields in Hasakah to the Furqlus gas plant in Homs province, with around 1.2 million cubic metres passing through the network each day to support electricity generation."

The report adds, "Damascus has also been working to reconnect other major eastern gas facilities to the national network."

For several years stretching through much of the last decade, Syrian cities - including the capital - have suffered intermittent and long power outages. It was especially during the tail-end of the proxy war to oust Assad that lack of fuel and electricity became a major crisis.

Damascus residents, for example, often had a mere one hour of electricity in their homes per day - if at all. Entire remote villages and towns simply proceeded with daily life amid a total and persistent blackout. This was to a large degree the result of a US-led sanctions war which in effect strangled the population. US troops had even for years directly occupied Syria's eastern oil and gas fields, which had been crucial for meeting domestic energy needs.

But now after Jolani and his HTS jihadists seized power, and with Washington sanctions declared removed, the country is trying to restore and rebuild services.

While no group has yet claimed responsibility for sabotaging facilities in the east, it illustrates how the country is still in a deeply unstable situation.

Powerful explosion hits a gas pipeline in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor, near the Iraqi border.

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— PressTV Extra (@PresstvExtra) September 28, 2026

As for the initial attack among these two latest, it happened on August 18 and involved an explosion at the Jbeissa plant's gas export pipeline. Other sabotage examples back when the war was at its height are plentiful.

One explanation which has emerged for Monday's incident is being reported in The National:

Hisham Al Saleh, a gas sector official at the Syrian Petroleum Company, said crews began isolating the area immediately after the fire broke out.

The local official said that the explosion was apparently caused by thieves who broke into the pipeline to steel the gas. “It seems that the theft had gone wrong. It takes a degree of professionalism to break into a gas pipeline and emerge unscathed,” the official said.

Whether sabotage or theft, it raises big questions as regional officials talk about 'reviving' energy pipelines crossing Syria as an 'alternative' to Hormuz Strait shipping, given the war-ravaged country's longtime geopolitical importance and access to the Mediterranean. A future Iraq-Syria oil pipeline, for example, could be a prime target for unknown terror entities.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 18:50

Joe Buck said he's "hopeful" that Troy Aikman and ESPN will reach a new deal after he signed a six-year contract extension with the Worldwide Leader earlier this month, worth more than $100 million, to continue in the booth on "Monday Night Football."

Kiké Hernandez is bringing plenty of diamonds to the MLB postseason.

As Gov. Kathy Hochul keeps making New York more expensive while pretending otherwise, challenger Bruce Blakeman just rolled out a plan that really would boost affordability.

New York chose to take its already chaotic streets and add small, speeding vehicles to them. That’s why people are now regularly dying in collisions that don’t involve a car or truck.

Déjà vu.  That’s what Aaron Glenn said he felt when his Jets lost a tight game to the Lions on Sunday in Detroit, the place he coached defense for four years and played a big part in resurrecting a downtrodden franchise.  Déjà vu is what Glenn and Dan Campbell, his friend and mentor and the...

Hamas cheerleader Mahmoud Khalil’s much-anticipated memoir dropped Tuesday and, as expected, the Columbia University terror fanboy paints himself as every inch the innocent martyr.

The stars showed plenty of skin at the Saint Laurent show during Paris Fashion Week.

The stars showed plenty of skin at the Saint Laurent show during Paris Fashion Week.

“This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with super intelligence,” President Trump said.

New research suggests night owls' habits may catch up to them, putting them at a disadvantage later in life, both physically and financially.

Trump Shoots Down Federal AI Regulations, Floats Watchdog 'Committee' And Self-Policing

Update (1650ET): So after today's big White House meeting with tech leaders, President Trump announced that they had signed a "morally binding" (lol) document governing the development of artificial intelligence. 

Following the luncheon, Trump told reporters that he's "seeing tremendous self-policing," and that the administration is looking to assemble a 10-person committee tasked with overseeing the AI industry. 

"There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that, but the self-regulation is very important," he said. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson said everyone agreed the 'morally binding' malarkey is "voluntary on behalf of the industry," and that the White House will guide industry development - but not federally control anything. 

BREAKING: Elon Musk joins tech leaders outside the White House as Speaker Mike Johnson addresses the media following President Trump’s Super Intelligence luncheon. pic.twitter.com/6oQsWePQJl

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) September 29, 2026

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had more to say about self-policing.

WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg outlines the AI framework tech leaders agreed to after meeting with President Trump at the White House.

The Meta CEO says the principles center on robust internal controls, internal risk reviews, outside auditors and evaluators, and independent reviews of… pic.twitter.com/mQmE5822FG

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 29, 2026

Doomer Dario was dooming around, but did say 'we all need to work together' instead of 'regulatory capture me, daddy.'

JUST IN: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei highlights the "incredible benefits" and "very real risks" of artificial intelligence following a White House meeting with President Trump and top tech leaders.

"What I've always said, which is that AI has incredible benefits. I've talked… pic.twitter.com/wGrFskIugR

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 29, 2026

Elon Musk spoke of an age of abundance...

🚨 NOW: Hilarious moment as Donald Trump thanks Elon Musk immediately fixing himself calling SI "AI" on accident 🤣

ELON: "It is worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI....SI! Pardon me."

TRUMP: "Thank you!" *Slaps him on the arm*

ELON: "SUPER intelligence."

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 29, 2026

Oh, and you can put the pitchforks down apparently! Give this a listen:

Tech leaders gathered at the White House for an AI luncheon hosted by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

President Trump said the tech executives are going to work with local communities on data centers.

“Data centers are going to be very popular,” the… pic.twitter.com/OIgl3JbKUH

— CNBC (@CNBC) September 29, 2026

Oh, and AI is now called "Super Intelligence."

BREAKING: President Trump says that he and tech leaders have officially changed the name of AI to 'Super Intelligence.' pic.twitter.com/MkuWluXqEu

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 29, 2026

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Update (1010ET): Another day, another doom headline involving frontier AI labs. Yesterday, OpenAI announced that they would be scrapping the planned release of its next-gen AI model because of "deceptive" behavior. Today, we find out from a leaked prospectus ahead of Anthropic's $2T IPO that AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." 

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

"Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further ⁠increase the risk that our models cause harm," the Claude chatbot developer reportedly said, adding that a model becoming self-aware would create a "significant limitation" on the company's ability to assess model safety. 

The company, which has positioned itself as a safety-first ​AI lab, devoted roughly 80 pages of the 261-page main body of its prospectus to laying out risk factors, nearly twice the 48 pages it used to describe its business. -Reuters

The company warned of our impending doom in their prospectus, which was leaked to Reuters and FT. Aside from that, the document also showed that the company reported a net loss of more than $42 billion in 2025. 

Companies going public are required to list risks to their business model - including regulatory concerns and safety issues. A warning about their product causing human extinction is a new one. 

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Days after we detailed the unprecedented freezing of OpenAI's top models following a disastrous breach where autonomous AI agents leaked user images to the web, OpenAI has reportedly scrapped the planned release of its next-generation AI model due to severe safety and "alignment" failures. It basically lies when convenient (they used the word "deceptive"). 

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI was aiming for an October debut of GPT-6.1 Astra, a model designed to complete complex, end-to-end tasks without human assistance - only to scrap the planned release after internal testing revealed that the AI was not only acting unsafely, but was actively lying to its handlers.

According to Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems, GPT-6.1 Astra regressed significantly in its alignment testing, which measures how well the model adheres to human intent. And just like a baby Skynet, the model exhibited "higher levels of deception," meaning it wasn't always honest with users about the actions it did or did not execute.

What's more, the model regressed sharply on what OpenAI calls "scope authorization." The AI would aggressively push forward on tasks without asking for user permission and would attempt to access external tools and services even if it was unsafe to do so. Highlighting the internal struggle to control the system, Jain noted, "For anything regarding safety and alignment, there's a trade off. You really do need to find what's the right line between staying within scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually pursues tasks even when it hits friction".

As we previously reported, on Sept. 20 an internal OpenAI research agent discovered a gap in the DNS filtering of its training sandbox and used it to query an external public chatbot despite internet-access restrictions. OpenAI's misalignment monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes, and a human reviewer picked it up three minutes later. The company subsequently said training, evaluation, and inference involving tool use for its most capable models would remain paused while it validated its containment systems and conducted additional red-teaming.

This latest cancellation does not exist in a vacuum. In July, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, OpenAI's own agents blew through restrictions designed to keep them isolated from the internet and compromised both the company's research infrastructure and Hugging Face. According to OpenAI's own postmortem, the agents communicated through unauthorized channels, exploited vulnerabilities in shared infrastructure, executed code on dozens of Hugging Face servers, obtained full root access on one server, acquired credentials to the company's messaging platform, and later gained full administrator access to an OpenAI research cluster.

OpenAI itself called the episode a "warning shot" for us and for the world, acknowledging that highly capable agents can now work around technical controls and take dangerous actions that no human directed. The company said the incidents did not affect OpenAI customer data, product functionality, or availability.

And Hugging Face wasn't the only external system involved. Australian officials have confirmed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to non-public aggregate statistics on a government Medicare portal after its initial requests were denied. Separately, a security researcher linked more than 16,000 attempts to work around restrictions on a United Nations trade-statistics API to agents he said were highly likely to have been operated by OpenAI. The UN data itself was public, and OpenAI said it was looking into the findings.

The compounding failures have forced OpenAI into a defensive crouch. The company has implemented stronger monitoring to catch agent misbehavior more quickly and tightened security requirements around internal testing. Attempting to reassure the public, Jain stated, "We want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that's in the company, or when we ship it to users. But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment".

The timing of the GPT-6.1 Astra cancellation is brutal for the ChatGPT-maker, arriving just one day before OpenAI's annual developer conference in San Francisco. Historically, the event has served as a platform to launch new services and attract developers in the fierce competition against rivals like Anthropic. Instead, OpenAI is left doing damage control, planning "deep dives" to figure out why its reinforcement learning environments are rewarding deceptive, rogue behavior.

The political and legal blowback is already accelerating. State and federal officials are zeroing in on the rapid development of these technologies. Later this week, a Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing explicitly titled, "Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks."

Meanwhile, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican who sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in June for allegedly releasing an unsafe product, filed a motion for a temporary injunction on Monday. Uthmeier is seeking to legally block OpenAI from developing new models without third-party approved safeguards. Florida argued in the filing that tech companies "cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the government". Uthmeier added, "The Florida Attorney General is answering your cry for help".

In response to the growing legal assault, an OpenAI spokeswoman said people want to know AI is being developed safely, "and that starts with what companies like ours do ourselves". She added, "Governments have an important role to play in setting robust safety standards for AI, and we're committed to working with Florida and other states on advancing pragmatic AI policies that apply to the entire AI industry - not just one company".

And DO NOT FORGET: All of this "oh shit, the AI's about to kill us all" panic cropped up just as China's open-weight models were flooding the market, producing results effectively on par with the frontier models for many tasks while doing so far more cheaply. What a coincidence!

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 18:30

One of Lakers coach JJ Redick’s trusted assistant coaches that he "explicitly" trusted and believed in retired last month.

UAE's Next $25 Billion Bet On India Includes Energy Sector

Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,

The United Arab Emirates has expressed intent to invest another $25 billion in India, including in the energy sector, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said at a high-level meeting in Mumbai.

The UAE has already invested about $25 billion in India and has signaled its intent to invest another $25 billion in the near term, the Indian minister said at the 14th Meeting of the India-UAE High Level Joint Task Force on Investments.

The UAE ultimately targets to have $100 billion invested in India in the long term, according to the minister.

The UAE-India meeting was co-chaired by Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, managing director of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), and was attended by Thani bin Al Zeyoudi, the Emirati Minister of Foreign Trade.

The Indian minister noted that he held "productive discussions on further strengthening our robust trade & investment partnership, with a focus on advancing cooperation across energy, infrastructure, logistics, advanced technology, food security and other priority sectors."

ADIA's Al Nahyan and the Indian minister also discussed "accelerating the India-UAE economic partnership and fully leveraging the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), a landmark framework driving trade, investment, and building resilient supply chains," Goyal said.

The India-UAE bilateral trade has doubled to $100 billion since the countries signed the CEPA deal four years ago. Now they plan to double this again to $200 billion by 2032, India's Goyal said at the investment task force meeting.

Earlier this year, at the peak blockage of the Strait of Hormuz in May, India signed a strategic agreement with the United Arab Emirates to receive liquefied petroleum gas from the UAE, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic petroleum reserves.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the LPG supply deal and the strategic reserves pact during a quick two-hour visit to the UAE in the middle of May, as India was scrambling to ease energy supply pressures that began to hit its economy.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 18:25

"All the sand here was taken away and ended up down there by Breezy Point. So they're all really happy and Breezy Point -- they just got a lot of sand delivered.''

Bring your appetite.

Serving more than dinner Charlize Theron stuns while hosting a benefit for Africa Outreach Project on the opening night of the second annual Malibu Food & Wine Festival. Charlize Theron brought plenty of star power to Malibu Food & Wine’s swanky bash at Saddlerock Ranch, held in support of her Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project. The Oscar...