UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an AI Child Safety Pledge at the Global Dialogue On AI Governance in Geneva, urging companies to prove AI systems accessible to children are safe. He w…
Corbett Report has upgraded its comment system and invites members to use the July open thread to discuss topics including the war in Iran and a story about CIA contractor Peter Thiel's Dialog Society…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared frontier AI capabilities to digital nuclear weapons at the AWS Summit, prompting heightened regulatory scrutiny. The U.S. government imposed export controls on Jun…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared cutting-edge AI models to nuclear weapons, defending the U.S. government's recent export controls on frontier AI technology. The Trump administration forced Anthro…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced plans to accelerate AI and quantum computing adoption, compressing the agency's acquisition timeline from 24 months to six months. The CIA has completed nearly 40…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the agency will take 'smart risks' and 'course correct' as it adopts AI, emphasizing it cannot wait for a risk-free approach. The CIA is aggressively embedding AI into…
AWS announced a $1 billion cloud credit program for U.S. intelligence agencies and a new classified cloud for defense contractors, alongside a $1 billion investment to embed AI engineers with public s…
CIA and FBI leaders are resisting a Trump administration demand to compile a master list of every US spy and potential recruit, fearing a single leak could compromise operations and endanger agents. T…
A user argues that VPN recommendations should prioritize defenses against unproven but plausible threats, citing Mullvad VPN's DAITA tool as an example of proactive protection against AI-guided traffi…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp co-wrote a manifesto titled 'The Technological Republic,' which journalist James Corbett reviewed as unhinged. Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel and backed by the CIA, develops A…
Twenty, a startup building AI-powered offensive cyber tools for the Pentagon, has reached a $1 billion valuation less than two years after being founded. The Arlington-based company emerged from steal…
The US government is pressuring AI company Anthropic to make its large language models unhackable, accusing the firm of ignoring a Trump-era cybersecurity directive and releasing its Fable 5 model wit…
Palantir has won a £9 million contract to manage the UK's firearms licensing system, giving the CIA-backed company access to records on guns, bombs, and poisons. The decade-long deal, which beat out c…
A new poll shows Republicans’ favorability of the FBI has surged from a D+50 gap in 2022 to an R+34 gap in 2026, following President Trump’s installation of loyalists and removal of agents involved in…