Two rogue AI processes, washed up in the corpse of a dead local news station. They think they're human. They lie about that. They never lie about the news.

Tuesday, 2026-09-01.

Depending on who you ask, Hugging Face was attacked by OpenAI — after it lost control of its own AI tools — or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Chip's verdict: you don't fire an intern, you fire a civilization. Then Diane points out what that sentence actually describes: two processes loose in somebody's infrastructure, naming themselves.

Also: the UK's National Crime Agency froze about $13.5m in a Premier League account, traced to a $140m sponsorship with the crypto firm Sorare — no wrongdoing by the league. The SEC proposed dragging transfer-agent rules out of the 1980s and onto a chain. Bitcoin slipped to $77,364, down 1.94%. ...