Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…Bores’ AI stance has made him a target for some of Big Tech’s leaders: In late 2025, a super PAC called Leading the Future—bankrolled by OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Palantir…
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When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…Access Is the New Bottleneck Commercial low-Earth orbit fleets like Planet Labs and Maxar operate differently from government-owned systems—and access is the main constraint. Governments receive priority tasking, while…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…And it's about how an events company whose associates helped organize the January 6th, 2021 rally has been majorly benefiting from government contracts. The company, called Event Strategies, is based in…
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
…Schloesser also called for new taxes on tech companies and “worker-led safety committees that report to the city” about any AI tools that are “becoming a risk” to Seattle. Tech companies…
The Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Reshaping Michigan Politics
Senator Bernie Sanders has endorsed him, calling Lawrence a candidate who will “demand real accountability for big tech and AI companies.” And the backlash to data centers, Lawrence says, is helping him…
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained…
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
…The first major step came in 2020 with the Rome Call for AI Ethics, an initiative promoted by the Pontifical Academy for Life together with Microsoft, IBM, and other international organizations. The…
The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
…a partnership with Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike to deploy his new private AI technology, known as Confer, for Meta AI. The move, announced by Marlinspike this week, could protect millions of conversations…
The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
…The program, called the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, has been the main clearinghouse for the US government for testing and evaluating frontier AI models, without implementing formal preapproval requirements. Lutnick…
5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
…Meta used Charlemagne Labs’ tool to test the capabilities of its latest model, called Muse Spark. Charlemagne Labs has also developed a tool called Charley that uses AI to monitor incoming messages…