Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire

Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.

CNN, MS Now and Politico vow to protect First Amendment rights after reporters’ access withdrawn

A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...

Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.

The government unlawfully retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.

Vincent Bevins recently wrote a great essay re-evaluating the effects of the Musk reign over the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license…

Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...

AI lab’s Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients

​"We must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium."

We need to stop waiting for someone else to break the spell

The subject is becoming more inventive and empirical, but questions about reproducibility and AI abound

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.

America’s Secret Police

Users have to manually turn off the setting to stop their content being used…

The Nerd Reich, by journalist Gil Durán, parses the rising tide of authoritarianism embraced by leading tech investors and the ‘Network State’ ideology.

Drawn by wild landscapes and an eccentric president, executives are building a refuge

For anyone in Europe who still thought climate change was a problem for future generations, this summer's sweltering heatwaves have brought home the reality that its costly and life-altering economic impacts have already arrived.

Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging

Opening up national markets has worked wonders for European railways