Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
…Last week The New York Times reported that Google had entered into a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its AI for “any lawful government purpose.” (On Friday, the US Department of…
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The Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons
Members of the group known as Explosive Media were putting the finishing touches on their latest AI-generated, Lego-inspired Trump video. The video features a Trump mini-figure colluding with leaders…
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…
Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
Customer service calls and chats with the Sears Home Services AI bot Samantha were exposed and publicly accessible until a researcher reported the situation—revealing personal details from calls and chats, including…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…SpaceX had rushed to build the facilities for its xAI unit, which develops the Grok AI chatbot, but Musk said his company didn’t need all of their computing capacity in the…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
…in the US, right? The US government might not give a shit about this, but other governments certainly do. In Europe, they have the EU AI Act. Sustainability has been a pretty…
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
…But in other ways, the team-up makes perfect sense. “This is a fascinating development,” says Scott Singer, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who studies AI governance and…
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…
Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
…In a statement, Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro says, “These allegations misrepresent the reality of our work and we will fight them.” Speaking with WIRED, Ben Winters, CFA’s director of AI and…
AI Has Flooded All the Weather Apps
…And they’re just getting started.” The push of using AI in weather apps comes in the era where the government has dismantled NOAA and other federal efforts to track and measure…