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Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedFrom early 2027, a district that switches off Gemini for its students also switches off the search box. Google calls it choice. Bernie Sanders calls it extortion.
Artificial IntelligenceBuried in Anthropic's updated IPO paperwork: the company may be close to its own threshold for AI that accelerates AI research, and it admits it has missed that kind of jump before.
Artificial IntelligenceCisco Talos found a Windows stealer that hands your stolen life to an AI model and asks for an appraisal. If Claude refuses, it tries a cheaper model.
Power & SurveillanceLanguage tutors, workout coaches and cute pet filters passed App Store review, then quietly turned into sexual deepfake generators for the right users. Meta's ad system brought in the customers.
Power & SurveillanceSince October 2, both companies have been listed as 'organizers of information dissemination.' In Russia that means storing users' messages for the security services. Nobody noticed for weeks.
Artificial IntelligenceCustoms in Kuala Lumpur found $12 million in AI hardware labeled as ordinary electronics. The same day, a report said two Chinese labs trained on GPT-6 Astra's output instead.
Energy & CitiesNeighbors of Musk's gas turbine plant in Southaven, Mississippi, say the noise keeps them awake. A company subsidiary is now buying their homes, on one condition.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedA leak called Icepick lists names, offices and team memberships for DHS staff, down to who sits in groups tied to undercover work and face recognition. DHS wants it gone.
Power & Surveillance◆ Featured90,835 of 118,756 responses were machine-made, and nearly all said the same thing. The government caught this one. The next will be harder.