OpenAI and Microsoft have acknowledged in filings that LLMs scrape copyrighted work without consent and that AI crawlers are degrading the open web they depend on. The admission is remarkable: the same companies building on the web are accelerating its collapse.
License plate surveillance company Flock Safety ran searches on its own network using a fake internal "police department," querying for bumper stickers, religious symbols, and political signage. The company says it was demonstrating what cops shouldn't search for — which raises the question of why anyone built that capability at all.
A joint event examining how private companies supply governments with AI-powered surveillance and targeting tools. The lines between commercial AI and weapons infrastructure are blurring fast.
Mirendil cofounders — ex-Google and Anthropic researchers — are building systems where AI meaningfully contributes to its own development. Self-improving AI is moving from research paper to funded startup.
When AI agents can autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities, every assumption in traditional security breaks. Neo and Cotool discuss why the defender's toolkit needs a full rebuild, not a patch.
A quoted post from a worker at a large company describes a team where specs, code, tests, PRDs, and tickets are all generated by Claude Code — and nobody likes it. Velocity is mandated; quality is optional.
Advertised pay in the most AI-exposed occupations has surged 46% since 2021 — the largest pay growth of any job category in the US. This flips the "AI kills jobs" panic: right now, proximity to AI is a wage premium, not a pink slip. The question is how long that window stays open.
Raschka pushes back on dismissing Jev as "just a classifier," arguing that anyone who has spent years training encoder-style models knows how hard fast, reliable classification actually is. Jev is getting serious attention from ML researchers, not just startup founders — that's a signal worth tracking.
Mollick argues that all social science is now in uncharted waters and that AI research needs to be deeply informed by what AI can actually do — not lag behind it by years. The institutions designed to study society are running on a slower clock than the technology reshaping it.
Bitcoin cleared $84,000 for the first time since January as $260 million in leveraged shorts were liquidated in sixty minutes. The move came alongside falling oil prices lifting risk assets broadly — macro and crypto are trading as one asset class again.