A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
…Information Wars Leading the Future is trying to steer AI policy in the industry’s favor at a potentially pivotal moment. AI is shaping up to be a key issue in the…
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Here’s How Much San Francisco Tech Companies Pay for Police Protection
…policies like San Francisco’s, according to a survey from over a decade ago by Seth Stoughton, faculty director of the University of South Carolina’s Excellence in Policing & Public Safety Program…
Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
…Boston Stadium is rolling out AI-powered face recognition ahead of the tournament, allowing registered fans to enter the stadium and make purchases using their face. Other World Cup venues deploying similar…
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO
A public offering will allow SpaceX to raise even more money to fund its AI ambitions, including building more data centers, faster. But even as Musk and other SpaceX investors see a…
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
…the policies of how Onix will or will not vet experts at scale haven’t yet been determined. And then there’s that drawback I mentioned earlier—the substitution of AI models…
They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
…Snap spokesperson Monique Bellamy shared the company's policies on harassment and sexual content, which prohibit sharing AI-generated or manipulated content to humiliate or sexually harass others. She told WIRED that…
Meta Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on ICE and Won
…The undertaking shows how activism inside the tech industry may be shifting as big companies become less responsive to worker petitions and decline to take public stands against Trump policies. A decade…
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
…executive functioning,” says Robbie Torney, senior director of AI Programs at Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that works toward online safety for children. AI chatbots are always available, and they tend to…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…The image was an AI-manipulated version of a year-old Google Earth shot from Bahrain—wrong location, wrong timeline, fabricated damage. Open source intelligence researchers debunked it within hours, matching it…
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
…Will this catastrophe bankrupt them? Or will they invoke an “act of war” exclusion in their insurance policies—a standard clause that exempts carriers from all liability when an armed conflict breaks…