July 29th, 2026, in the Modern era, as the Wall Street Journal reports today’s news, the headlines are worth time-stamping as an archive — The politics (watch out for that left turn), and AI (oh open-source Anthropic), and historic wildfires in Europe (but nada about the clear and present security dangers of, uh, climate change)
Then, an ominous OpenAI blip about a rogue AI doing bad things:
Here is our associate’s comment about rogue AI supercomputers …
Dear WSJ Editor: Is it time for a HAL 9000 foreshadowing story?
