Shanu Mathew [verified] @ShanuMathew93 · 7h
"The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet."
Creating jobs, stock market wealth, +inflation
[Attached chart, titled "Construction": "Private construction spending relative to December 2023", y-axis $5 billion down to -10, x-axis 2024 to '26. Series: "Data centers" (rising line, ending near +$4.5 billion) and "All other private construction" (falling line, ending near -$10 billion). Note: Seasonally adjusted. Source: Commerce Department. A second attached chart is partly visible at the right edge, cut off, with fragments: "er of new U.S. AI-re[cut off]", "annotator", "center", "gineer", "of AI", "rd deployed engine[cut off]", "LinkedIn".]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Dark-mode X post quoting an article line about the AI build-out as the biggest economic bet in US history. The attached WSJ-style line chart shows data center construction spending rising while all other private construction falls sharply, with a second chart cut off at the right edge.
Miles Brundage [verified] @Miles_Brundage
Maybe just stating the obvious but the AI outage cascade was presumably just caused by a lot of enterprise customers shifting their loads to new models after the first one fell, right?
10:12 PM · Sep 3, 2026 · 7,215 Views
15 replies 2 reposts 78 likes 10 bookmarks
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gavin leech (Non-Reason... [verified] @gle... · 11h
Cloudflare too, Fortnite too
[4 likes, 463 views]
I take you seriously @replyallguy · 11h
"we're diversified and we have backups"
"yeah but our backup is everyone else's backup too"
seems plausible, but unclear
[3 likes, 290 views]
Petr Baudis [verified] @xpasky · 4h
I would be very surprised if *enterprise customers* specifically shifted their loads between models. (More plausible if Anthropic customers switched between native / Bedrock / Vertex / ... - but almost definitely not to Sol in a matter of minutes?)
[2 likes, 86 views]
Ryan Gasoline [verified] @Ryan_Gasoline · 13m
We hope that was it
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Dark-mode X screenshot of a Miles Brundage post (Sep 3, 2026) speculating that an AI outage cascade came from enterprise customers shifting load to other models after one failed, with replies from gavin leech, I take you seriously, Petr Baudis and Ryan Gasoline.
Agus [verified] @austinc3301 · 9h
why are we getting key facts about an extremely worrisome incident by means of roon tweets rather than serious investigations
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roon [verified] @tszzl · Aug 29
Replying to @dwarkesh_sp and @ketanrama
notably the virtual machine infrastructure they took over isn't the same as the GPU clusters that have weights access
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
X post by Agus complaining that key facts about a worrying AI incident are surfacing via roon's tweets rather than formal investigations, quoting a roon reply that the VM infrastructure involved is distinct from the GPU clusters with weights access. Public commentary, no operational detail beyond that.
Sichu Lu reposted
roon @tszzl · 2h
Replying to @dwarkesh_sp and @ketanrama
notably the virtual machine infrastructure they took over isn't the same as the GPU clusters that have weights access
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Reply tweet by roon (@tszzl), reposted by Sichu Lu, to @dwarkesh_sp and @ketanrama, noting that the virtual machine infrastructure agents took over is separate from the GPU clusters with weights access.
Joshua Achiam ✓ @jachiam0 · 2h
So, is there an extremely intense cyber war going on between the US and Iran right now? If Iran is attacking US municipal water systems and other soft targets, and we're out of rockets to shoot them with, we must be doing something awful to their infrastructure right now. Is anyone following this closely and trying to work out a blow-by-blow?
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Screenshot of an X post by Joshua Achiam asking whether an intense US–Iran cyber war is underway, reasoning that if Iran is hitting US municipal water systems and the US is out of interceptors, the US must be striking Iranian infrastructure in return, and asking whether anyone is tracking a blow-by-blow.
Samuel Hammon... @hamandch... · 18h
Read @SohamThoughts on why America's sewer and water systems are unusually vulnerable to cyberattacks, ominously written just two weeks before this big cyberattack on 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota.
policygradients.thefai.org/p/americas-sew...
[Embedded article card:]
POLICY GRADIENTS
America's Sewer Systems are Surprisingly Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
The literal enshittification no one is talking about.
SOHAM MEHTA AND FAI
JUL 14, 2026
[Listen]
[Quoted tweet]
Joshua Achiam @jachiam0 · 22h
Recent reports suggesting that Iran is behind a cyberattack on 30 municipal water supply systems in Minnesota should give all of us some pause. The cyber capabilities of frontier models, plus the temperature of ongoing wars, make it ... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet linking a Policy Gradients newsletter article (Soham Mehta and FAI, July 14 2026) titled 'America's Sewer Systems are Surprisingly Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks,' noted as written just two weeks before a real cyberattack on 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota. Quotes Joshua Achiam's tweet noting reports that Iran is behind that attack, and connecting it to frontier-model cyber capabilities amid ongoing wars.
François Fleuret reposted
Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon · Jan 18
Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost.
[Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge partially shrouded in fog, viewed from a hillside with plants in the foreground.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A reflection on entropy and the constant maintenance labor required to sustain civilization's infrastructure, using the Golden Gate Bridge as an example. General philosophical musing, not directly AI-related.
David ✓ @DavidSHolz · 3h
seems we've reached the underground bunker datacenter stage, kinda cool ngl, one of the quotes in the article is literally "Israel must have a secure cloud, so it will be nine floors underground"
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Oracle's second data center in Israel will be nine floors below ground
The cloud and database giant wants to ensure its servers are secure
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
David Holz tweets about a news article on Oracle building a nine-floors-underground data center in Israel for security. Tangential to Nathan's AI infrastructure/compute tracking interests; illustrates growing physical-security hardening of AI-relevant compute infrastructure.
— quoting Black [Greenland flag][trans flag] Site (@UnseenOps)
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Kane 謝凱堯 @kane · Nov 21 my hobby is collecting technical infrastructure arcana [Four images: 1) a large angled early-warning radar building on a snowy coastline; 2) interior of an anechoic chamber with pyramidal foam wedges lining the walls; 3) interior of a large white cold-storage/warehouse facility with rows of racking and a worker in yellow visible; 4) interior of a hexagonal geodesic structure lined with photomultiplier tubes, likely a neutrino/particle detector] > QUOTED: Black [flags] Site @UnseenOps · Nov 21 > Found two more real life locations that look like they're from the X-Files, the USDA Marcell Experimental Forest and the US Army Corps of Engineers Fox
Permafrost Tunnels [Two images: left, aerial view of a forest clearing with rows of white octagonal open-top research enclosures near a lake (Marcell Experimental Forest); right, an underground tunnel lined with insulated ducting, lights, and interpretive signage (Fox Permafrost Tunnel)] 6:40 AM · Nov 21, 2025 · 655.9K Views
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A tweet collecting striking photos of unusual technical infrastructure (early-warning radar, anechoic chamber, cold storage warehouse, particle detector), quote-tweeting a similar account about real-world locations that look like X-Files sets. Aesthetic/curiosity content, no direct AI-safety relevance. Full view of the "Black Site" tweet quoted in the prior screenshot — photos of the USDA Marcell Experimental Forest and the US Army Corps of Engineers Fox Permafrost Tunnel, presented as real locations resembling X-Files sets. Same thread as Screenshot_20251122-134129.png; no AI-safety relevance, curiosity/aesthetic content.
how am i supposed to work when my entire team is on strike. they have all abandoned me …
[Embedded image: Anthropic status page screenshot showing "Elevated errors on on requests" incident, "Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue." dated Mar 03, 2025 - 16:39 PST. Below, 90-day uptime bars for claude.ai (99.55%, "Major Outage" flagged), console.anthropic.com (99.68%, "Major Outage"), and api.anthropic.com (99.25%, "Major Outage").]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A joking tweet from ML researcher xjdr about being unable to work due to a Claude/Anthropic API outage, with a screenshot of Anthropic's status page showing elevated errors and major-outage markers across claude.ai, console, and API in early March 2025. Documents an Anthropic infrastructure incident and how reliant AI researchers had become on Claude for daily work.
