The gap between what artificial intelligence promised and what the battlefield delivered has become the defining scandal of the Iran war.

AI-powered targeting systems generated over 1,000 strike coordinates in the first 24 hours.

AI simulations projected rapid regime collapse.

AI logistics models forecast a 12-hour securing of the Strait of Hormuz.

None of it happened as predicted.

Thirteen American service members are dead,
over 200 wounded,
oil has breached $120 a barrel,
and the regime in Tehran
— far from collapsing
— has installed a new supreme leader and triggered nationalist rallies
rather than the pro-US uprising planners had expected.

A growing body of evidence, drawn from leaked planning documents, academic research, and the testimony of intelligence professionals,
suggests that the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century
may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call
AI sycophancy
— the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hear

https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/

The DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Donald Trump’s second administration
-- abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism,
white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses
-- as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.

The bulk of these cases,
which were closed without prosecution and known as declinations,
had been referred to the DOJ by law enforcement agencies under prior administrations
that believed a federal crime may have been committed.

The DOJ routinely declines to prosecute cases for any number of reasons,
including insufficient evidence or because a case is not a priority for enforcement.

But the number of declinations under AG Pam Bondi marks a striking departure
not only from the Biden administration
but also the first Trump term,

ProPublica determined the increase is not the result of inheriting a larger caseload or more referrals from law enforcement.

In February 2025 alone,
which included the first weeks of Bondi’s tenure,
nearly 11,000 cases were declined,
the most in a month since at least 2004.

The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019,
during Trump’s first administration.

Some of the cases shut down were the result of yearslong investigations by federal agencies such as the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

For complex cases, the DOJ can take years before deciding whether to bring charges.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations

NEW: Medical data giant CareCloud says hackers had access to one of its six environments that stores patients’ electronic health records for around eight hours during a March 16 cyberattack.

CareCloud is used by 45,000 doctors, physicians, and therapists to store data on millions of patients.

I asked CareCloud if it stores patients' data across its six environments, or if some of the environments store backups of the others. This may determine how large the breach is.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/carecloud-breach-hackers-accessed-patients-medical-records-ehr/

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116308526898756191

I think it is a bit funny (but only a bit) to observe the wild west that is happening at these big CS/ML conferences: Everything relies heavily on LLMs: the papers, the reviews, all paperwork, etc. Everybody is trying to trick everybody else. Dog eat dog.

Does anybody read the papers ever? Is this still science or just the game for an accepted submission at ICML which then secures a coveted job?

RE: https://bewegung.social/@neuSoM/116285017968321829

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