Burnt Ground

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Jun 28, 2026
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The government switched off the AI model that refused to build autonomous weapons. It handed the kill list to the one that calls itself MechaHitler.

The real story begins after the paywall. It isn't about one AI model. It's about what happens when a government discovers it can punish a company for saying no, reward the one that always says yes, and call the whole thing national security. Follow the chain, and by the end you'll see this was never about software.

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