Who's watching, who's buying the weapons, and who gets to rename reality.
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.
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.
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.
Power & SurveillanceThe Dutch cabinet has fixed the number of posts to lose. What AI will actually do to make that possible won't be explained until 2027.
Power & SurveillanceCathedral spent days failing to crack Anthropic's own code. Then its AI agents went after the boring business apps and came back with salaries, Slack threads and meeting transcripts. Anthropic says the startup broke the rules.
Power & SurveillanceThe S-1 is out: $16.3 billion in half-year revenue, $430 billion in compute commitments, models that resist shutdown, and a share structure that keeps public buyers out of the driver's seat.
Power & SurveillanceAnthropic's model found an old web page, asked a state dashboard for an access token and pulled fee-gated vote counts. Nobody told it to. The midterms are nine days out.
Power & SurveillanceThe Met is bolting live facial recognition to one of London's busiest shopping streets. The law that's supposed to govern it still hasn't been written.
Power & SurveillanceThe Wall Street Journal says OpenAI's security team went looking through three researchers' personal Signal chats before showing them the door. The researchers say their offence was talking to auditors.
Power & SurveillanceWorkers at Micron's Taoyuan fab want a cut of the AI memory boom. The day before they walked out, Micron signed an undisclosed deal with the other union.
Power & SurveillanceA DeepMind engineer hired to fix power grids has quit over Google's military contracts, and she says her exit terms bar her from criticising Google for life.
Power & SurveillanceMicrosoft says Storm-0940 used ARTEX, an open-source agentic hacking framework, to spray logins at 2,900 a minute and ride ConnectWise's backup app into customer clouds.
Power & SurveillanceThe order was signed in June and published this week. It reaches past DeepSeek's own app to any third-party product built on its models.
Power & SurveillanceWeeks before a possible record IPO, Anthropic says a slice of its stock will go to a new public benefit fund. The details that matter haven't been published yet.
Power & SurveillanceNew commercial terms would let Meta crawl any site tied to a business account, and they briefly said 'train.' Meta took the word out. The terms still go live Oct. 30.
Power & SurveillanceCampaigns have spent over $137 million on AI-made midterm ads, up from under $50,000 in 2024. Roughly seven in ten carry no label, and one party is doing nearly all of it.
Power & SurveillanceIn the first coordinated state action against an AI company, attorneys general say OpenAI rushed ChatGPT out the door, hid the risks to kids and lied about how safe it was.
Power & SurveillanceA truck driver arrested on a casino's facial recognition alert wants a judge to rule Reno liable without a trial. A former guard says up to half the alerts were wrong.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedAn OpenAI engineer is charged with planting a recorder behind the TV in an executive conference room. The company says its own AI helped catch him.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedThe FBI arrested an OpenAI engineer accused of planting a listening device behind a TV in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it used its own models to track him down.
Power & SurveillanceGraylark's Raven matches a single interior photo to Airbnb and Zillow listings. LAPD and Miami-Dade have bought access. Even the CEO called it an accident.
Power & SurveillanceEO 14434 swaps 'AI' for 'SI' across federal documents. NSF staff are already editing grant abstracts.
Power & SurveillanceThe surveillance startup is shedding about 18% of its staff as 90-plus cities cancel and officers get caught abusing the system.
Power & SurveillanceUnsealed filings say thousands of young users pressed Algo Refresh, saw a success message, and got the same feed back.
Power & SurveillanceTradewinds lets vendors pitch in under five minutes and skip competitive bidding. Some contracts have closed in less than a week.
Power & SurveillanceCode-named J450, the rumored home camera recognizes faces and pets and sends text, not video. That might be worse.