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- Trump’s Mass Detention Machine in Pennsylvania
A sign is placed in the yard of a residential property off US Route 322 approaching the small town of Philipsburg in central Pennsylvania. The sign appears almost as if it is floating in the lush green grass. Greeting passersby entering this town of some 3,000 residents, it displays a weeping Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame and sorrow before Route 322 twists and curls through the heart of town. Philipsburg is a town with a history built on timber, industry, and coal. Industry has disappeared, and it’s been decades since coal was a significant employer. Yet one employer has remained in Philipsburg: GEO Group, the second largest for-profit prison company in the US. Yard sign on US Route 322 at the southern entrance to Philipsburg. Eager to replace lost jobs, developers from the private prison company Cornell Corrections, and the state, believed the construction of a prison would fill this need. Built on the grounds of an old strip mine, Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility opened in 2006 and operated as a federal prison for fifteen years. Cornell was acquired by GEO Group in 2010, and in 2021, the prison temporarily closed only to reopen later that same year as an immigration detention center. ICE signed a 5-year agreement with Clearfield County. Clearfield County then signed a “management agreement” with the owner and operator of the prison, GEO Group. The prison was renamed the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (MVPC). Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned there on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the northeast. Eighty-five percent of those detained in MVPC have no criminal record. In 2025, two immigrants died in ICE custody in MVPC, including 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, found hanging by his neck in a shower stall on August 5. In April, dozens of detainees launched a hunger strike to protest conditions. While anti-ICE and anti-detention advocates have sustained an active campaign to shut down the facility, many Philipsburg residents and local officials see things differently. An annual $200,000 administrative fee to Clearfield County for serving as the middleman in this pass-through of federal funds is one reason for keeping it open. The benefits of local tax revenue and jobs remain the other. Moshannon Valley Processing Center Philipsburg, Pennsylvania “I have no problem with the… [TheTopNews] Read More.13 hours ago - Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence
Being in San Francisco in the mid-2020s sometimes feels like what I imagine living in Los Alamos was like in 1943, when the Manhattan Project rolled into town. The air is heavy with excitement and dread. Engineers toil, day and night, on systems of profound consequence. Wild-eyed prophets sell visions of a transformed world, and politicians drop in to check on the progress of the project. Everyone knows that the fates of nations, and trillions of dollars of capital, rely on what happens here, yet no one can fully appreciate what it would mean if the project succeeds.One person consumed by this question is Dario Amodei, a Princeton-educated physicist who in 2016 left Google to join OpenAI, then a fledgling non-profit AI research lab. He looked the part of a mad scientist, with round glasses and short brown ringlets that he twisted in his fingers whenever he was feeling nervous or thinking hard about something. He was known among his colleagues as a brilliant, bullheaded researcher with deep convictions about AI, which he often expressed by writing long essays that he circulated inside the company.The most famous of these essays among OpenAI workers was a 26-page document titled “Big Blob of Compute.” Amodei wrote it in 2017, shortly after arriving at OpenAI, and it spelled out his grand theory of intelligence—how it emerged in nature, how it could be built into AI systems, and how it could be developed safely. Amodei’s hypothesis that machine intelligence was primarily a function of scale—that AI systems got smarter as they got bigger—steered OpenAI’s research agenda toward large language models, which Amodei saw as a promising path to artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a human-level intelligence capable of doing anything the brain can.By the middle of 2020, three teams were racing toward AGI: OpenAI, DeepMind, and Google Brain. But a fourth team was quietly assembling under Amodei, then OpenAI’s vice president of research. Amodei and his team had led the development of GPT-2, then GPT-3, and he was feeling ever more certain that he wasn’t going to stick around for GPT-4.Career-wise, things were going great for Amodei. GPT-3 was a hit among programmers, and his research on large language models was starting to bear fruit. A year earlier, two researchers on Amodei’s team, Jared Kaplan and Sam McCandlish, came up with what they called the “scaling laws”—equations that described predictable increases in LLM performance… [TheTopNews] Read More.13 hours ago - Todd Rundgren labels Taylor Swift as ‘apotheosis of mediocrity’
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Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future. [TheTopNews] Read More.14 hours ago
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A sign is placed in the yard of a residential property off US Route 322 approaching the small town of Philipsburg in central Pennsylvania. The sign appears almost as if it is floating in the lush green grass. Greeting passersby entering this town of some 3,000 residents, it displays a weeping Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame and sorrow before Route 322 twists and curls through the heart of town. Philipsburg is a town with a history built on timber, industry, and coal. Industry has disappeared, and it’s been decades since coal was a significant employer. Yet one employer has remained in Philipsburg: GEO Group, the second largest for-profit prison company in the US. Yard sign on US Route 322 at the southern entrance to Philipsburg. Eager to replace lost jobs, developers from the private prison company Cornell Corrections, and the state, believed the construction of a prison would fill this need. Built on the grounds of an old strip mine, Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility opened in 2006 and operated as a federal prison for fifteen years. Cornell was acquired by GEO Group in 2010, and in 2021, the prison temporarily closed only to reopen later that same year as an immigration detention center. ICE signed a 5-year agreement with Clearfield County. Clearfield County then signed a “management agreement” with the owner and operator of the prison, GEO Group. The prison was renamed the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (MVPC). Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned there on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the northeast. Eighty-five percent of those detained in MVPC have no criminal record. In 2025, two immigrants died in ICE custody in MVPC, including 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, found hanging by his neck in a shower stall on August 5. In April, dozens of detainees launched a hunger strike to protest conditions. While anti-ICE and anti-detention advocates have sustained an active campaign to shut down the facility, many Philipsburg residents and local officials see things differently. An annual $200,000 administrative fee to Clearfield County for serving as the middleman in this pass-through of federal funds is one reason for keeping it open. The benefits of local tax revenue and jobs remain the other. Moshannon Valley Processing Center Philipsburg, Pennsylvania “I have no problem with the… [TheTopNews] Read More.
13 hours ago
Being in San Francisco in the mid-2020s sometimes feels like what I imagine living in Los Alamos was like in 1943, when the Manhattan Project rolled into town. The air is heavy with excitement and dread. Engineers toil, day and night, on systems of profound consequence. Wild-eyed prophets sell visions of a transformed world, and politicians drop in to check on the progress of the project. Everyone knows that the fates of nations, and trillions of dollars of capital, rely on what happens here, yet no one can fully appreciate what it would mean if the project succeeds.One person consumed by this question is Dario Amodei, a Princeton-educated physicist who in 2016 left Google to join OpenAI, then a fledgling non-profit AI research lab. He looked the part of a mad scientist, with round glasses and short brown ringlets that he twisted in his fingers whenever he was feeling nervous or thinking hard about something. He was known among his colleagues as a brilliant, bullheaded researcher with deep convictions about AI, which he often expressed by writing long essays that he circulated inside the company.The most famous of these essays among OpenAI workers was a 26-page document titled “Big Blob of Compute.” Amodei wrote it in 2017, shortly after arriving at OpenAI, and it spelled out his grand theory of intelligence—how it emerged in nature, how it could be built into AI systems, and how it could be developed safely. Amodei’s hypothesis that machine intelligence was primarily a function of scale—that AI systems got smarter as they got bigger—steered OpenAI’s research agenda toward large language models, which Amodei saw as a promising path to artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a human-level intelligence capable of doing anything the brain can.By the middle of 2020, three teams were racing toward AGI: OpenAI, DeepMind, and Google Brain. But a fourth team was quietly assembling under Amodei, then OpenAI’s vice president of research. Amodei and his team had led the development of GPT-2, then GPT-3, and he was feeling ever more certain that he wasn’t going to stick around for GPT-4.Career-wise, things were going great for Amodei. GPT-3 was a hit among programmers, and his research on large language models was starting to bear fruit. A year earlier, two researchers on Amodei’s team, Jared Kaplan and Sam McCandlish, came up with what they called the “scaling laws”—equations that described predictable increases in LLM performance… [TheTopNews] Read More.
13 hours ago
Todd Rundgren prefers the work of "real musician" Lady Gaga. [TheTopNews] Read More.
13 hours ago
Miley Cyrus released Bass Persuades, featuring the title track and single Let's Get Married, on 18 September. [TheTopNews] Read More.
13 hours ago
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future. [TheTopNews] Read More.
14 hours ago
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