The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight.

We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.

Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.

Launching next week on T-Mobile's network, the cell plan takes a nuclear approach to online safety.

The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change.

Though the US military's big data initiative Maven has sped up the planning of strikes for years, the comments suggest that generative AI is now adding a new interpretative layer to such deliberations...

AI-enabled dashboards, combined with prediction markets and fake imagery, are reshaping how war is observed.

Anthropic pushed for moral boundaries. OpenAI settled for softer legal ones, and now it stands to benefit as the Pentagon rushes out a politicized AI strategy during strikes on Iran.

Even when content is revealed to be manipulated, it still shapes our beliefs. The defenders of truth are hopelessly behind.

New research details how Civitai lets users buy and sell tools to fine-tune deepfakes the company says are banned.

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.

The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims.

Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals.

As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep.

“There will be fewer, if any, enforcement actions about how companies are deploying AI,” says former FTC attorney Leah Frazier.

Once cautious, OpenAI, Grok, and others will now dive into giving unverified medical advice with virtually no disclaimers.

OpenAI and Anthropic say AI can help students learn—not just cheat—even if real-world use suggests otherwise.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students.

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

Residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky, used machine learning to shape civic debate. The real test is whether the government acts on the results.

In a test run, a unit of Marines in the Pacific used generative AI not just to collect intelligence but to interpret it. Routine intel work is only the start.

The evidence-backed model delivered impressive results, but it doesn’t validate the wave of AI therapy bots flooding the market.

One chatbot on Botify AI that resembled the actor Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams told us that age-of-consent laws are “meant to be broken.”

One chatbot on Botify AI that resembled the actor Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams told us that age-of-consent laws are “meant to be broken.”

“Waste” is politically subjective. Fraud is less so. Using AI to find either is harder than it sounds.