Yeah, this is pretty much peak eyeball soap opera drama kind of "tea", as they say. It has my parents talking about it, and they couldn't be less in tune wih tech and AI and GPUs. And apparently US intelligence was aware of this for over a year; they were simply told to not dig deeper.

Hanlon's razor seems to apply here, so I don't really think it's a psyop. Simply information many (top secret) parties were aware of for a while that other people who are incentivized to tell everyone eventually caught up on.