The Pentagon confirmed that the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed; a Palantir executive claimed that many AI researchers have begun smoking cigarettes “as a way of signaling to other researchers” that they believe AI is “going to cure cancer”; and the mayor of Tirana, Albania, who is in jail awaiting trial on money-laundering and corruption charges, vowed to continue his work “from the cell” in an AI-generated video.